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To: Alas Babylon!

There are only one or two complete skeletons. There are only about 200 partial skeletons.

One competing theory is that these were extremely old people which would be another reason for sharing DNA.


31 posted on 10/13/2018 6:55:31 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: mountainlion

No, just no.

Some were children.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/neanderthal-child-remains-found-catalonia-cave-002940

And I don’t think there is any ancient hominid skeletons complete, anywhere, including full-blooded ancient homo sapiens sapiens. There are tiny ear bones and finger and toe bones, etc. which might not survive for tens of thousands of years.

The same applies to Neanderthal. With modern day gene sequencing, they don’t need every bone in a skeleton to tell the species.


32 posted on 10/13/2018 7:29:54 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Vote GOP this November. Take two friends to vote with you!)
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