[freedumb2003]

Sorry Guys, I can't give verbatim references. While I'm a critical reader, I don't usually memorize the details about the source (other than to note the credibility). The last study I remember reading about was a European one in 2004, and it confirmed a German investigation from a few years earlier. I was surprised when I read it, because I had always believed our people and they had interacted amicably, and of course must have mated sometimes also. The researchers were not religious creationists, but paleontologists. The researchers were also surprised, but were saying that the evidence was clear, that they (paleontologists) were going to have to revise their hypotheses about what became of the Neanderthals.

IOW you made it up.

Honestly, I've read about this finding so many times now that I thought it had become fairly common knowledge by now. That's why I was so surprised to see some bonehead writing an article based on such outdated theories.

That Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens have no common root? If you had any evidence to back this up you would be a rich man.

That "I read it somewhere" stuff may fly on DU, but not here.

I invite you to substantiate your original claim.

And if I was you, I would hold off on the insults.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

Sorry, I also don't remember the author and publisher of most of my college textbooks! That doesn't mean the information I gained from them is invalid! Why don't you check out the statements I made instead of attacking the report.
BTW, I didn't say we didn't have a common root, I said the studies show that we're NOT THEIR DESCENDANTS!