Bob Z wrote: > > the current trend seems to be to view the hominids of the last millenia as > seperate species. the dna evidence suggests that neanderthal was a seperate > species and erectus was pretty different from sapien. > Yes, but there are traces of Neaderthal and "Sinanthropus" erectus that are similiar to the sapiens populations that came to the region that they lived, suggesting that they _might_ have traded genes.
> In fact, early sapien > may have been different from the more recent version. We know that there > was a great leap forward about 100,000 years ago when culture possibly > related to language exploded. this probably was the result of some change > in the human brain. > This time marks the arrival of a new and fiercer predator, that competed savagely with the hominids: man itself. But the changes might not have been speciation, but only an improvement of the existing species. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
