Sleep With Neanderthals? Apparently We (homo Sapiens) Did

Seattle Times ^ | 8-13-2006 | Faye Flam

[Torie]

Perhaps Neanderthal ingenuity was just dormant within Celtic blood and simply need to get activated by a Teuton/Norse infusion?

I had not given that much thought before, but I am sure you have it exactly right. Maybe you need a chapter about "Genes Run Wild."

[AntiGuv]

Hmm.. Or maybe it was the Latin part. The Brits were probably at least as much Latin as they were Celtic by the time the Angles and Saxons came along. By the time the Normans made it over they were totally mutts. :)

[Torie]

Ya, it has been written before that the Latin did them in, genetically speaking, and well culturally. They lost their Teutonic virtu. Hitler probably read some of that stuff.

[AntiGuv]

ohmigod! You just killed the thread. meh.. It was overdue..

[Torie]

My light touch button was accidentally missed (the one I almost always use), and the nuke button was hit.

[staytrue]

very interesting link in post 39

[Tom D.]

As I recall, Isaac Newton came before the Industrial Revolution. Copernicus came before Newton.

[AntiGuv]

The heliocentric model was first recorded by Aristarchus of Samos in ancient Greece. It's written on by Aristotle, Archimides, and Plutarch, among others. It was Ptolemy's embrace of a geometric model that created a discontinuity between Aristarchus and Copernicus.

I bundle the Age of Enlightenment, along with Isaac Newton, in with the Industrial Revolution. They are parts of the same phenomenon in my view.

[AntiGuv]

PS. But it was the Industrial Revolution that ultimately catapulted Europe to global hegemony. The rest is ultimately just prep-work.

[AntiGuv]

That should be geocentric model, not geometric model (though it is geometric fwiw).