[lbo-talk] Neanderthal refugees

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 2 07:13:30 PDT 2006


--- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:


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>
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> With all the race problems we face today imagine how
> fucked up things would
> be were there to exist one or two
> intellectually inferior species of hominid.
>
> John Thornton
>
> ^^^^
> I agree on that the current world culture needs to
> develop a lot before it
> could handle two hominid species at the same time.
>

They probably would have been enslaved. How depressing. I forgot about homo flores. But presumably there was never any contact between them and homo sapiens sapiens, whereas HSS and HSN coexisted in territory.

Is the idea still being batted about that the Neanderthals did not die off so much as become incorporated into the European branch of homo sapiens sapiens through interbreeding, or has that theory been disproven? There must have been some exchanging of genetic material going on, given the ever-popular "take the women of the other tribe" strategy. Are the two species too far apart to produce viable offspring?

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