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From: koan12/26/2006 12:53:35 AM
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Slow quiet day:

This months Discover magazine said we may have 25% Neanderthal DNA. So I spent the day reading up on what is known about the Neanderthal.

Here is what is interesting. Neither Neanderthal or Homo Sapien had done much until those two groups started to comingle in Europe 35,000 years ago. Neanderthal had been in Europe for over 500,000 years and Homosapien wasn't fully developed 160,000 years ago and they had been separated for over 500,000 years.

But it looks like they mated and comingled and each may have had something the other species needed because they seemed to mold together and then flourished: art and music and farming and civilzation sprung right up out of their meeting 35,000 years ago.

On the surface, Neanderthal's brain was larger than ours, 1500 to 1800 CC's compared to our 1200 to 1500 CC's. So-----
they had something going on-lol. No evidence they could not do anything we could!

Kind of changed my thinking about my ancestry when I factored in a big chunk of Neanderthal DNA in my linage-lol.
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