hale_bopp wrote:
Humans can't interbreed with other hominoids.
Uhh, the last non-human hominid died about 28 thousand years ago, so I'm not sure where you got your data. That's if you're saying neanderthals can't be considered human.
Here's an interesting article about how neanderthals lived their day to day lives:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/BA/ba51/ba51feat.html
"Despite the physical toughness of their lives, it appears that Neanderthals had a strong sense of community - they cared for members of the group who were injured or infirm. Recent study of the tissues of the original Neanderthal's forearm, for example, shows that it had broken and remained unusable for decades, much reducing his ability to contribute to society. At Shanidar cave in Iraq, one male had a crushed right leg, ankle and foot, a blow to the skull that had probably blinded him in one eye and a right arm that was severed above the elbow. His injuries had healed; he remained part of the group."
If that ain't human, I don't know what is.
I'm trying to imagine a scenario where two groups of humans could live in the same place for thousands of years and there were no instances of people from the two groups having sex.
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They murdered boys in Mississippi. They shot Medgar in the back.
Did you say that wasn't proper? Did you march out on the track?
You were quiet, just like mice. And now you say that we're not nice.
Well thank you buddy for your advice...
-Malvina
16 Nov 2006, 1:32 am
