Our variety of human beings (homo sapiens sapiens) and that other bunch (homo sapiens neandertalis) were both around 30,00 years ago, about the time that the "iceman" got frozen in the Alps. The present human genome varies little from that of the "iceman", showing that we never did breed with our probably equally-intelligent cousins, whose greatest cultural difference seems to be that they confined sex to a rutting season whereas it has always been "open season" with us. Were we mutually "ugly" to each other, or did breeding produce sterile offspring. (I can't imagine that there weren't curious people in both groups who experimented with it!)
2006-07-28
13:49:23
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John (Thurb) McVey
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