To: presidio9
It is a blow to the "multi-regional" theory, in which some interbreeding between Neanderthal and early humans is thought to have taken place. I have no doubt that interbreeding likely took place, but could the offspring then have been sterile?
8 posted on
05/13/2003 9:29:22 AM PDT by
Hodar
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To: Hodar
I have no doubt that interbreeding likely took place, but could the offspring then have been sterile? Possible, or perhaps no pregnancy, 'cause there are modern (today) humans who will bang anything.
17 posted on
05/13/2003 9:36:17 AM PDT by
Mind-numbed Robot
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To: Hodar
I have no doubt that interbreeding likely took place, but could the offspring then have been sterile? That might be the answer to it, that or the offspring died in childhood. The DNA evidence says we're not related to the neanderthals and the one child skeleton appears to be the only evidence indicating crossbreeding might have ever taken place. You'd expect a lot more than that.
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