2010/6/17 John Sessoms <[email protected]>: > There was some news recently that Neanderthals and "modern" humans may have > been inter-fertile, and that the Neanderthals may not have gone extinct as > such, but were just subsumed into the mix.
Eg. what I linked to earlier in this thread: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100512/full/465148a.html > Love conquers all so they say. If the results are correct, it means they were physically close enough together for intercourse, and that they were biologically compatible. To put love into intercourse is unfounded romanticism. It might have been rape. The social circumstances could be anywhere between respectful and peaceful coexistence, constant war, or assimilation through slavery. My point was that if you look at modern man's known history and tally the societies that have not resorted to the latter two, you get a pretty short list. The likelihood that what we are today has evolved from something both expansionistic and exceedingly peaceful is pitifully small in my opinion. -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
