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Redheads = Neanderthals (according to last year's freeper wisdom)

Neanderthals = Conservatives (according to a survey of all the redheads in my family, including me, Barbarossa)

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Okay here it is:

Redheads 'Are Neanderthals'

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The gene for red hair has, evidently, been around for a long time. It is probably older than those for black, blonde, brown, and other hair colors.

The is a considerable argument whether Neanderthal Man was in the Sapiens line. So it is hard to say the red-head gene dates to Neandethals. Maybe it predates both the Sapiens and Neanderthal lines, as evidenced by Pongo pygmaeus, the "Wild Man of Borneo" (the Orang Utan).

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"Neanderthals = Conservatives " Neanderthals had/have (depending on your perspective) almost 30% larger brains than Homo-sapiens. A scientific fact. An interesting book on the subject by Paul Jordan, is intitled NEANDERTHAL : NEANDERTHAL MAN AND THE STORY OF HUMAN ORIGINS. In it, Jordan proposes that the Neanderthal didn't exactly die out, but was assimilated into the homo-sapient spieces. Food for thought.