Neanderthals among us?

latimes.com ^

[SunkenCiv]

And I think Helen graduated with Calamity Jane. Or maybe her older sister. Or maybe her mother.

[SunkenCiv]

And besides, that's really insulting to Neandertals.

[happygrl]

His odd-shaped skull is even more evident in that video.

Any chance that he has Alma ancestry ?

[SunkenCiv]

[Bellflower]

Yeah...like that Bible thing. That some imagination huh?

Some imagination? Yes. God's. He imaged it and then made it happen.

[Fraxinus]

The question we all want to answer is whether or not Humans and Neanderthals were still genetically close enough to produce fertile offspring after they came back into contact with each other between 50,000-35,000 ya.

There have been some stories indicating that there were very different rates of maturation, unfortunately I do not have the link.
I have also seen the theory that a mother's breasts have the curve that they do because it allows a baby to both nurse and breathe. Since most of the fossils that I have seen indicate that Neandertals had much more forward projecting faces, a female Neandertal would likely be considered to be flat chested by modern humans, and if the hybrid had a significantly flatter face than a Neandertal baby it would likely be suffocated while trying to nurse.

Just another theory why successful interbreeding between humans and Neandertals would be extremely unlikely.

[Sam Ketcham]

And with a 97% DNA match, we'd be called gorillas!

[Pelham]

Just slap a hat on Oink and jab him in the ribs when the sheriff asks his name...

[NicknamedBob]

I keep wondering if that was a Jerry Clower story.

He had some good ones.

[Pelham]

That could be. My father is of the same generation and the same part of the country as Clower, and he told me a variation of that joke 50 yrs ago.