[blam]

I believe these guys see conflict and violence between these two groups which is not supported by the data. If they were assimilating you would expect to see the same thing uncovered here. Why do they do this?

[gore3000]

This is just another know-nothing article written for popular consumption. What the article conveniently forgets is that the first waves of "humans" were not homo sapiens. Only the last one was. In addition, there is lots of evidence that homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived together in neighboring areas for thousands of years. The reasons for their dissappearance are totally unknown and the findings reported here do not add in any way to a solution to the question.

[RWG]

If they were assimilating then one would expect to find composite remains not exclusive deposits of one kind or the other.

[Bernard Marx]

Why do they do this?

Don't be coy -- we've had this discussion before. They do it for publicity, to better establish their academic "reputations" and to sell whatever books they've written. National Geographic is a joke. It peddles whatever pseudo-scientific line is trendy at any given moment. Great pictures, though!

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, I could have sworn this had made it into GGG already. Oh well, thanks Blam.

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[Ptarmigan]

Always a hot zone.

[Old Professer]

I know who won!

[Servant of the 9]

Did they?

We still are.
Take a close look at pictures of Saddam.

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[ckilmer]

this correlates pretty well with an earlier post that puts all genentics on the y chromosome as coming from from about 60,000 years ago.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1285491/posts

This also correlates with female mitochondria dna studies from a decade ago which date from about the same time.

the suggestion has been that there was a major collapse in the number of humans sometime in the 60,000-80,000 year range which would coincide with the shift in cave occupancy.