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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-25-07 03:43 PM
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6. The original ginger-snaps
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  -Red-headed Neanderthals? DNA says yes: study wlucinda  Oct-25-07 03:20 PM   #0 
  - I looove those redheads..  tridim   Oct-25-07 03:26 PM   #1 
  - Are you sure that's not just a picture of a neanderthal?  Bucky   Oct-25-07 03:28 PM   #3 
  - I'm just waiting for evidence of interbreeding  Warpy   Oct-25-07 03:27 PM   #2 
  - perhaps that's where the myth of Cain and Abel came from. Homo Sapien Sapien  cryingshame   Oct-25-07 04:03 PM   #11 
  - I'd date the Cain and Abel myth to the neolithic, personally.  Basileus Basileon   Oct-25-07 04:17 PM   #13 
     - your description of Early Hebrews as nomads vs. agriculture reminds me of Hopi v Navajo  cryingshame   Oct-25-07 05:08 PM   #19 
     - Both old and universal.  Basileus Basileon   Oct-25-07 05:10 PM   #20 
     - There's a famous theory agreeing with just that, positing that Genesis is a cultural memory.  Xithras   Oct-25-07 05:37 PM   #22 
        - An interesting theory.  Basileus Basileon   Oct-25-07 05:51 PM   #23 
           - Not always. There is precedent for the Eve part.  Xithras   Oct-26-07 01:55 PM   #25 
  - mtDNA testing has already largely discounted it.  Xithras   Oct-25-07 04:07 PM   #12 
  - To me it's a cinch that it happened. The only way it might of worked out  heidler1   Oct-25-07 04:51 PM   #16 
  - How interesting that modern pictures of them usually show them swarthy & dark haired.  Bucky   Oct-25-07 03:29 PM   #4 
  - Not quite true. Here's a recreation of a Neanderthal child.  Xithras   Oct-25-07 03:49 PM   #9 
  - Picture didn't come out  Bucky   Oct-25-07 05:06 PM   #18 
     - He's a cute kid.  Xithras   Oct-25-07 05:26 PM   #21 
  - Yeah, early Homo Sapiens Sapiens would have been much darker in skin tone.  Basileus Basileon   Oct-25-07 04:24 PM   #15 
     - They might look a bit like Mark Warner  Bucky   Oct-25-07 05:04 PM   #17 
  - Really not all that surprising.  Xithras   Oct-25-07 03:42 PM   #5 
  - The original ginger-snaps  SoCalDem   Oct-25-07 03:43 PM   #6 
  - MMmmmmm Red Heads  The Straight Story   Oct-25-07 03:44 PM   #7 
  - Raise your hand if you at first glance read that as "Red-state Neanderthals."  Commie Pinko Dirtbag   Oct-25-07 03:47 PM   #8 
  - Neanderthals should have been the ones to survive.  tabasco   Oct-25-07 03:59 PM   #10 
  - They did their best.  Basileus Basileon   Oct-25-07 04:20 PM   #14 
  - If you look at the geographical distribution of Neanderthals, it's almost  Lydia Leftcoast   Oct-25-07 06:16 PM   #24 
  - oh, goody  kineneb   Oct-26-07 04:42 PM   #26 
  - Red headed, tartan wearing mummies were found in China.  kittykitty   Oct-26-07 04:56 PM   #27 
 

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