[VadeRetro]

Add to it that a fossil "gap" appears on the near end of the scale.

The gap you refer to is a lack of non-neanderthal fossils from the 90-100Kya mideast skulls in places like Skuhl and the well-represented Cro-Magnon. However, a gap that size in the fossil record for a presumably less than widespread terrestrial animal is nothing. Not to mention that the structural / morphological gap is very minor. (The older skulls are a little bit more robust, but nothing to write home about.) That you would try to hide in such inadequate cover is pathetic.

[Ahban]

Pathetic? Really? But then why have you bothered to offer candidates to fill that gap? I mean, we have been going round and round about this for two years now.

When you came close to showing me the goods I wavered on occaision. In each of those instances, you eventually realized that the dates were dubious. If you had the fossils to negate my hypothesis, you would have them on thread in a flash. You don't, so you cry "pathetic". Is that the way science should be done? Negate my hypothesis, if you can.