Mallard-Pintail hybrid
Mallard-Spotbill hybrid
Mallard-Gadwall hybrid
Posted on 01/10/2002 5:42:43 AM PST by blam
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:38:56 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Humanity's first steps out of Africa along a path that led ultimately to dominion over the earth are subject to intense scientific debate. So is the role played by the Neandertals who roamed across Europe for 100,000 years before quietly disappearing. The two issues may well be related, and a University of Tennessee anthropologist reports statistical evidence that Neandertals and emerging modern humans likely interbred and evolved together.
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Just this morning I read a claim in Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez (highly recommended!) that polar bears and brown bears can in some cases produce viable offspring.
As for Neanderthals, the genetics suggest that they were separate species. Until the mitochondrial DNA data came in, they always were considered two varieties of homo sapiens. I don't see how comparative anatomy can trump that.
I guess that explains why I can say that I've never gone to bed with an ugly woman.....but I sure woke up with a few!
I suspect that during the ebbs and flows of 7(?) ice sheets since Raquel Welch's One Million Years B.C., early tribes were forced out and likely back into Europe, perfecting the human warrior genes and social organizations during these many migrations. Breeding then as now was probably for alliance, wealth, and dominance, as it is now. Maybe Neanderthals were the original blonds.
What has love got to do with it?
Bison and domestic cattle can interbreed yet are not in the same species. Timberwolves and domestic dogs can interbreed - different species. Drake mallard ducks will attempt to breed with any female duck of any species - often successfully.
Their entire research apparently consists of measuring skulls, which people laughed at the Nazis about.
"Because she was too damn ugly to kiss goodbye."
This is essentially what happened to the Neanderthals.
The men couldn't bear to kiss their wives good-by when they went on hunting forays, so they took them along.
Some sexually deprived Cro-Magnon males spotted them and used the grocery sacks they always carried to allow them to interbreed without regurgitating.
**Humans have attempted to mate with ... watermelons.**
Indeed. How else to explain Marlon Brando?
You forgot interns.
I think they call this a 'target-rich environment'...
Phobe? No, I'm not afraid of fish -- I just find them somewhat Ichthy.
Not all of them! Sounds like you need to bone up on fish.
I think this entire issue has been clouded by politically correct scientists not wanting to imply that "modern" Homo sapiens from Eurasia did not directly originate from Africa. In actuality, BOTH Neanderthal man and Homo sapiens originated in Africa, so this is really a non-issue.
If mammologists were viewing the skeletal remains of populations of hogs, deer, or any other taxa of mammals other than hominids, the apparent differences between Homo sapiens sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis/H. s. neanderthalensis would hardly be considered adequate to separate the populations into two distinct species.
Take a Neanderthal, give him a bath and a shave, and put him in a business suit, and he wouldn't stand out in any major city on earth today.
ROFLMAO!
By Der Vay, looking at Arnolt's prominent brow ridge, I vant to know eggsactly how far is dat Neanderthal (what did happen to the "H") Walley from Austria, Dude?
Mallard-Pintail hybrid
Mallard-Spotbill hybrid
Mallard-Gadwall hybrid
A show, Neanderthals On Trial, will be on PBS the evening of 01-22-2002, don't know what time.
Witness the "most intelligent president we've ever had"
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