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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/science-unlocks-neanderthal-secrets-1608222.html Most of this article is standard fare, but the quote from Paabo is most revealing. They extracted enough DNA from an analysis of 70 fossilised bones to build up a library of Neanderthal DNA covering 3.7 billi...

Well, H. Erectus was certainly an early human, and looked differently than we do. But I'm not paying too much attention to labels anymore. They make for confusion and blur the big picture, imo. I've been interested lately in "morphological continuity". This is an argument that states that ...

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/0Bq8ScZvzP ... 120309.pdf

Another report, a little more in depth. 2 pages.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7937351.stm This method is based on the radioactive decay of unstable forms, or isotopes, of the elements aluminium and beryllium in quartz grains. This enabled them to get a more precise age for the fossils. The results show the Peking Man fossils came fro...

India is very busy doing the archaeology of their subcontinent. So they are adding some pieces to the puzzle. It will be nice when the far eastern countries get busy. The picture is pretty barren, although we know that people were there nearly a million yrs. ago. And Indonesia should be pretty rich ...

That opens a bag of worms. I don't think the old labels work anymore, but I would like to see what label they would put on people in India from that time. He wouldn't be a classical H. Erectus. That's what they've been calling everyone who wasn't in Europe or Africa. I imagine that Neanderthal could...

Nice article. Seems people were nearly everywhere ca. 70kbp. The team, including history students of the university, found stone tools like axes, cleavers and scrapers at the site. The stone tools, used for food processing -- cutting, chopping and scraping -- were manufactured on par with European a...

That's strange. Assuming that he can read it though - get it fixed R/S.

Thank you Rokcet. Where are you BTW?

It's frikken myopic stupidity. I know but they keep trotting out this 'climate change' rationale. One variant I saw was that HNS was adapted to hunting in dense forests and when the climate changed they couldn't hunt without all that 'cover.' I doubt that there was ever that kind of forest in Pales...

I'd like to know where they get these numbers from though, the basis for the calculations. Roy. That's where I'm coming from also Roy. But Pat, I just wondered if you had something on file. Don't do a search on my account. I don't want anyone doing something that I can do for myself. But thanks. I'...

The population of HN in Eurasia has been estimated at 15,000 at most

Hi Pat, I've noticed that being said by others, including John Hawks. Do you know who did this study and what criterion they used?

Eurasia is a big place.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 154630.htm

A recent article confirms that climate change was not responsible for the vanishing of the classic Neanderthal.

As for the disease theory, I would only comment that Native Americans are not extinct, and not for lack of trying.

Leaning towards hoax.

I agree completely!

Welcome to the forum Nigel.

Then again, if the OOA claim that there was no interbreeding between HNS and HSS is correct then it wouldn't matter how many genetic adaptations that HNS had developed. Quite true, but when you look at the preponderance of the evidence, it appears that archaic humans evolved right where they were. ...