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To: Pharmboy
>Could our big brains come from Neanderthals?

The answer is no. Apes, monkeys, and hominids are one family of creatures, we are another; we are not related to them at all other possibly than for similarity of design. The neanderthal has been ruled out as a plausible ancestor for modern man and his DNA described as "about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee" and all other hominids are further removed from us THAN the neanderthal. There is thus no plausible ancestor for modern man amongst the hominids. To be descended from something, at some point, you have to be able to interbreed with the something and we could no more interbreed with neanderthals, much less any other hominid, than we could with goats or horses.

34 posted on 11/07/2006 11:30:52 PM PST by tomzz
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To: tomzz

Uh...no.


38 posted on 11/08/2006 3:38:18 AM PST by Pharmboy (Vote American, not Democrat.)
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