I was reading in Live Science that modern day humans (Homo Sapiens) and Neaderthals lived in close proximity to each other and that they may have interbred. Some say climate change or the interbreeding may have caused Neaderthals to go extinct. Also due to the fact that Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens were so close in DNA ( and evolutionary-wise) that they may have produced viable offspring. Most generally Homo Sapiens is portrayed as looking like a person with northern European traits: narrower nose, thinner lips, paler skin and light colored hair; while Neanderthals are generally portrayed as having a wider face, flatter nose with thicker lips, more of a protruding forehead, and (presumably, I am not sure how they can tell this?) slightly more swarthier skin tone.
Without all the hate mail and name calling, and hopefully with some scientific fact (and tact), is it possible that Black Africans are descended form the Homo Sapien & Neanderthal interbreeding union?
2007-05-06
04:07:06
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