we're as smart as bugs!
somehow, i have no trouble at all believing that...

Go computer screens!!!! woot!! lolCrazy Healer Lady wrote:uhhh doplhins dont walk.....![]()
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People like you I both want to hit and hug. Luckily you are protected from each by the mighty computer screen.
So we have a smarty pants on our hands do we. You play nice with Artemis Blessed and CHL, no more hitting or hugging the computer screen.uhhh doplhins don't walk.....
ROFLWe sicken me
If I understand evolutionary theory correctly, when two species (try to) occupy the same niche, either one species goes extinct, or evolves to exploit some other niche.Willow wrote:....... I read a book called a short history of progress that argues that the only reason that Cro-magnons out competed the neanderthals is because wee literally tried to kill them off, we put out their fire and stole their food........
Indeed, but aren't there theories that in some isolated cases there was interbreeding? This was my understanding, anyway. It has been a loooong time since I studied human evolution.It is important to remember that the Neanderthals are not our ancestors. They were a different species. Although it is possible (but not certain) that they may have had evolved from the same common ancestor.
I think the only way a Cro-Magnon could interbreed with a Homo Sapien is with a time machineIt is possible and some what likely that Cromagnum and Homosapien crossbred at one or more points in time. I think they have found fossils of humanoids that bear resemblence to homosapiens and cromagnums
Skeletons apparently sharing Neanderthal and Cro-magnon features have been found in Portugal; it is unclear whether these are in fact hybrids of the two species, or simply extreme individuals of one or the other species. These may suggest the two species did interbreed. However, it has been speculated that these hybrid individuals could have been sterile. It is very difficult to prove as the genetic differences between Neanderthals and Cro-magnons were far more minute than the morphological differences between the two species might seem to indicate. Tests comparing Neanderthal and modern human mitochondrial DNA show too great a dissimilarity for Neanderthals to have contributed to the human mitochondrial genome. The mtDNA indicated a split between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals occurred more than 500,000 years ago. Morphological symmetry and asymmetry often belies genetic truth in the case of these ancient Homo populations. In any case it is possible but highly unlikely that the Neanderthals, with their small sedentary populations, could have been absorbed by the much larger populations of modern Homo sapiens, but without living Neanderthals it cannot be absolutely proven that they could interbreed with anatomically modern Homo sapiens to produce viable offspring. These hybrid remains should not be confused with Homo heidelbergensis, the more ancient common ancestor of both the Neanderthal and modern man.
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