Archaeologica.org

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI—Recent micro-CT scans of a 100,000-year-old human skull unearthed in Northern China in the 1970s have revealed the interior configuration of a temporal bone thought only to occur in Neanderthals. In fact, this arrangement of the inner ear has been used to classify skulls as Neanderthal since the mid-1990s. The other human teeth and bone fragments found with the skull, known as Xujiayao 15, all resemble an early, non-Neanderthal form of late archaic humans. And so, Erik Trinkaus of Washington University; Xiu-Jie Wu, Wu Liu, and Song Xing of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing; and Isabelle Crevecoeur of PACEA, Université de Bordeaux, expected the scan to reveal an inner ear formation resembling that found in modern humans. “We were completely surprised….This discovery places into question whether this arrangement of the semicircular canals is truly unique to the Neanderthals,” Trinkaus told Science Daily. “The study of human evolution has always been messy, and these findings just make it all the messier. It shows that human populations in the real world don’t act in nice, simple patterns.”

IOW, looks like everybody was getting it on with everybody

You know guys.... they'll screw anything.

Minimalist wrote:You know guys.... they'll screw anything.

min, you have not used the proper citation. Chris Hardachre (spelling?) deserves credit.

Give him his props.

Thanks, EP. The official terminology is The Nookie Factor.

I bet that would be a Best Seller.

"since the 1st ed. flopped, maybe I should call it that? First Nookie in America. or The First American Nookie? I see your point. Change the cover, give it a cave woman, hmmmmm, .............. oh wait, i'm on a roll now. cave woman finds a trowel in the cave one day. a time portal. that's the ticket." by H. sapiens desperatus

Actually, that book's been written, was a best seller and is surprisingly good (although it would benefit from having had an editor with a machete).

http://www.sexatdawn.com/

Thesis : the whole academic train went off the rails when it tried to relate human society (sexual mores included) back to Chimps and Baboons. Nobody thought (or wanted to, since it would have undermined their "survival of the most ruthless" meme that played well with Republicans) to compare us with Bonobos.

Which is what these folks did, and their insights/conclusions are HEARTENING.

Change the cover, give it a cave woman,

A busty cavewoman....

I'm thinking Raquel Welch, here.