Re: Sex, Genes, Skin Color, Sex, and Europe Only?


<johnwl4@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1135270506.245876.93400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "So there would have been selection not
> just for lighter skin, but for body shapes that were better adapted to
> the last glacial maximum that arrived about 18 to 20 KYA in Europe...
>
>
> Ross Macfarlane "
>
> Idle thought - I read years ago, in Coon, I think, that HN had
> rather larger noses which warmed the air better. Is this still
> thought, or are the skulls too damaged to really tell?
> Regards
> John GW

Nenaderthals had enormously large noses, & these are still thought to have
been an adaption to warm cold air by most people. There are some who think
they may have fubnctioned as snorkels but they are "fringe theorists"... :-)

Ross Macfarlane


.