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That "fedup.com" thing works pretty well. I'll have to try it on Science News -- I found the WP article in a Google search instead. :')

Caveful of Clues About Early Humans:
Interbreeding With Neanderthals
Among Theories Being Explored
by Fredric Heeren
The Washington Post
September 20, 2004
For the seven-member team, the hazards of reaching the site, accessible only by diving through frigid underwater passages, were worth it. Their finds may help answer some of the most hotly debated questions about early humans: Did they make love or war with Neanderthals? Were Neanderthals intellectually inferior to our human ancestors? ...The team included a Portuguese shipwreck diver and archaeologist, a French Neanderthal specialist, a Romanian cave biologist, and the three Romanian adventurers who discovered the human fossils while exploring submerged caves... [T]he ceiling lowered until they were forced, first, to swim on their backs and, finally, don their diving masks and enter a narrow, 80-foot-long underwater passage called "the sump." Underwater visibility was about three feet... The original entrance caved in long ago, sealing off the galleries from the outside... Trinkaus said the Oase fossils show features of modern humans: projecting chin, no brow ridge, a high and rounded brain case. But they also have clear archaic features that place them outside the range of variation for modern humans: a huge face, a large crest of bone behind the ear and enormous teeth that get even larger toward the back... "To find wisdom teeth that big," he said, "you have to go back 500,000 years."

You know what I said? Multiregionalism.

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