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To: PatrickHenry
the mtDNA sequences from the nine neandertal specimens that have been analyzed to date ... do not match those found among modern humans, suggesting that little, if any, interbreeding took place.

This could be explained if Neanderthal women were exceedingly unappealing, and the only interbreeding that took place was between Neanderthal men and HS women.

6 posted on 06/05/2006 1:17:34 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (California bashers will be called out)
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To: ElkGroveDan
This could be explained if Neanderthal women were exceedingly unappealing,

And beer goggles hadn't yet been invented!

30 posted on 06/05/2006 1:53:25 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor (...and I'll have the roast duck with mango salsa.)
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To: ElkGroveDan
This could be explained if Neanderthal women were exceedingly unappealing, and the only interbreeding that took place was between Neanderthal men and HS women.

Or...if Neanderthal women were GORGEOUS, and HS men killed all the Neanderthal men to take them...but the Neanderthal women decided to kill themselves rather than mate with HS.

Hey, it's another view...
32 posted on 06/05/2006 1:57:10 PM PDT by beezdotcom
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To: ElkGroveDan
This could be explained if Neanderthal women were exceedingly unappealing, and the only interbreeding that took place was between Neanderthal men and HS women.

Neanderthal beer had a notoriously low percentage of alcohol --- who could have forseen that that would lead to their extinction?

60 posted on 06/06/2006 10:37:27 AM PDT by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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