"There are regions of the world, like the Middle East and Portugal, where some fossils look as if they could have been some kind of mix between archaic and modern people," said Rebecca Cann, a geneticist at the University of Hawaii. "
I don't know about Portugal - but the Middle East - THAT makes sense.
Did they check out France and Germany yet?
It's almost like a new form of racism... instead of judging people by the color of their skin, we can use the shape of their skulls as criteria for judging their true humanity (and, of course, our own superiority).