Posted on 03/06/2002 7:38:41 PM PST by ValerieUSA
This is the only thing that explains some NFL Linemen and NHL defensemen.;)
Yes, and they call themselves liberals!
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Sorry, but that's just total BS. Several recent studies of neanderthal DNA have all indicated that neanderthal DNA is "about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee", i.e. we could no more interbreed with neanderthals than swe could with horses. Homo Erectus, of course, if clearly much further removed from us than the neanderthal, and we obvously could not interbreed with him either. The DNA findings explain the anomalous total lack of interbreeding in areas in which humans and neanderthals lived in close proximity for long periods of time. Under such circumstances, interbreeding should have been common, and remains of mixed types should be very easy to find.Sorry, but that's just total BS. There is no Neandertal DNA. There's no way to determine much of anything from mtDNA, other than ruling out or ruling in recent relationships (like Jesse James' remains). Homo Erectus may have been around as recently as 20,000 years ago (not extinct for 100s of 1000s), and there isn't even mtDNA around for Erectus AFAIK. Also, as Erectus is the consensus candidate for the most recent common ancestor (agreed by Multiregionalists and Replacement advoc), OF COURSE the chromosome structure is compatible. My first post in this thread (just a little way up the page) happens to address the rest of the unfounded objections.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
If you dropped the Chinese off in the Midwest, they would claim the same thing.
Some Asian races are relatively short, true, but not the Chinese. In general Chinese people are nearly as tall as Americans, and quite tall compared to, say, the Japanese.
Cross-breeding of what??
If you cross a horse and a donkey you get a sterile mule. But some lion-tiger crosses are fertile. So are crosses between different "species" of snakes and fish.
What is a "species"? Are Neaderthals and Homo erectus and modern man really different species?
100,000 years seems like a long time, but from an evolutionary perspective, its not.
I agree that "modern man" whatever that is, originated in Africa. But I don't think you can pinpoint migrations from Africa to the rest of the world in one or two or three exclusive events. Successful dispersal of species does not occur that way. In all probability the three waves concept is a conservative one. My guess is there were numerous waves of migrants and that they were close enough to the Neanderthals to have interbred with them. I'm not so sure about the Homo erectus, but anything is possible.
Looking at reconstructions of Neaderthals and "modern man" as well as their skeletal remains, especially those of later Neanderthals makes them appear very similar.
Put a Neanderthal in a business suit, give him a shave, haircut, nail trim and bath, and he probably would like a very strong modern man.
You want to link to me on the page? How very homo erectus of you! *blush*
I agree.
This explains Ted Danson.
ahhh... just where does the orange face first appear on the human evolution timeline?
Definitely taller than the Japanese, I would agree (they make me feel like a giant when I'm walking there), but not all that tall. I'm average height for an American, but when I'm on a crowded Beijing street my head is floating above the crowd along with the Russians I see there.
Just put him in a tank shirt and sweat shorts and he could be a personal trainer at the gym.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
Election 2004 threads on FR
Here's the proof!
Okay, I'm frightened now.
Glad you caught that!
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