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To: koan who wrote (28596)12/30/2006 4:56:47 PM
From: Gib Bogle  Read Replies (1) of 78410
 
I wrote a response to your post yesterday, koan, but it has been deleted by the powers that be. Interesting. I guess it's because I used a good old anglo-saxon word to refer to the act of ***ual congress (i.e. I used the word in it's correct sense, not as an expletive). This is a subject that I feel strongly about, for what it's worth - calling a spade a spade. Some people, on the other hand, would rather use a more genteel word for a spade. So here's a sanitized version of my post, for those with delicate sensibilities.

On the subject of interbreeding between homo sapiens and so-called Neanderthals, it is a well-known fact (although of course strongly to be deplored) that in certain situations human males have been known to engage in irregular ***ual relations with various animals. (****ing pathetic, isn't it, this euphemistic carry-on?) Given this propensity, it seems highly unlikely that Neanderthals, so like us in every way, would have been off bounds for ***ual activity. Therefore interbreeding would have occurred at some (presumably low) rate provided the union was fertile. Maybe we had drifted too far apart genetically when contact was made for there to be offspring, but I doubt it.

BTW a big breakthrough in charting evolution was made by my fellow countryman Allan Wilson, who hit on using chromosomal mutation rates and mitochondrial DNA to estimate the times at which species separated. A great scientist.
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