Posted: Nov 17, 2010 3:36 pm
pinkharrier wrote:Those Neanderthals put the cat amongst the pigeons. Are they, um, sub species, races, varieties. They certainly make the out of Africa idea up for debate.
To me it is more a case of after Africa as we know we came from there, and they came from there a long time before us.
Whatever the ramifications are it would be miniscule even more so now the expansionism of Empires have truly mixed up the gene pool. But it might say why the Chinese have that particular skin colour and eye shape, which was just a good design passed on by the prior inhabitants. Or it might mean nothing at all as whatever traits were pasted on weren’t dominate and phased out over a few generations. But that is the physical, the cultural advances might be a whole different ball game, and we might have learned the god delusion from Neanderthals or how to build boats?