Posted on 05/01/2007 6:30:29 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
bump to the tune!
Not one word.
> It also means that the unanswered question of why the Neanderthals died out is even more puzzling,
That’s easy. The Neanderthal gene is recessive. We all got it, but don’t “express” it usually.
I have been telling Mr. Fairview for 25 years that he is a proto-hominid.
I think they are talking about you - ping.
teenylaugh
Actually, I was married to a Gear Head in a previous life. That was 10X worse...all of our money was always tied up “in parts” and junk cars in various states of dis-repair. ;)
I call my dogs, “Quad-Pedal Canines.”
They call me “She Who Stands Upright, Giver of All Foodstuffs.” When I leave in the morning for work, I tell them, “Mommy’s off to the Dog Food Mine!” :)
But I can change....
If I have to....
I guess.
Guilty as charged.....
:-P
I thought of you when I got this email ...perhaps you’ve already seen it ... funny stuff!
When our lawn mower broke and wouldn’t run, my wife kept hinting to me
that I should get it fixed. But, somehow I always had something else to
take care of first, the truck, the car, playing golf - always something
more important to me.
Finally she thought of a clever way to make her point. When I arrived
home one day, I found her seated in the tall grass, busily snipping away
with a tiny pair of sewing scissors. I watched silently for a short
time and then went into the house. I was gone only a minute, and when I
came out again I handed her a toothbrush.
I said, “When you finish cutting the grass, you might as well sweep
the driveway.”
The doctors say I will walk again, but I will always have a limp.
Moral to this story : Marriage is a relationship in which one person is
always right, and the other is the husband.
I was always convinced that my redheaded, light blue eyed husband had Neanderthal genes (a point agreed to by the scientists who believe that the redheaded celts of Britain have such genes). His was Scottish ancestry. He also had a prominent brow ridge, a weak chin, short legs, long very strong torso, and very thick body hair, including on one shoulder. He was smart, but was dislexic, a dramatic mimic and teacher, and a warrior.
Both our sons had some reading disability, especially the fairer complexioned one. I wonder if any scientists have checked into the possibility of a gene or genes for dislexia, and whether or not they are more common in these same redheaded people who they believe have the N genes.
My husband also developed Alzheimers. Before he lost his capacity to walk well, he took to escaping from the house when he was hungry and before I could get dinner on the table. This leads me to hypothesize that the wandering in Alzheimers may be a genetic pro survival gene. If the no longer very useful elderly wandered off looking for food during periods of starvation, especially at night when their families might think they went out to pee, they would die and no longer need to be fed, leaving more food for their offsprings. I think this would be more likely in primative sparsely populated areas of the globe. I checked on the rates of Alzheimers in two long populated urban areas of India and Nigeria, and found that the rate of Alzheimers was 1/4th the rate in the US. Hope to do more research on this area of spectulation.
Sorry about your husband.
And you have an interesting theory.
Thanks.
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