Re: Neanderthal vs Cro-Magnon


Spanish Paranoia wrote:
In order to make a proper use of statistical data to predict past or
future events you must have enough trustable samples, which is just not
the case when dealing with Neanderthal fossils.

Okay, here is another URL which deals with the Cro-Magnon data:
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/Paleoanthr o/files/Papers/
PDF/Molecular% 20Views%20of% 20Human%20Origin s.pdf

Does support no interbreeding. And neither Gisele nor Philip
Dieteker seem to think much of the article which found traces of
ancient human genes originating in Asia.
I haven't much of any opinion, though, even yet, except the
weight seems to be against interbreeding. I could cite historical
incidents either way, eskimos and indians, as in _Company of
Adventurers_, say. Also, HN didn't use rock from a distance for
tools, but AMH did - which implies ancient HS could have formed large
war parties to wipe out isolated HN groups. But what do I know?
Except people have held opinions before that proved wrong.
Regards
John GW


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