[PatrickHenry]

I'm confused. 200K years is well before the arrival of Cro Magnon man (our own wonderful selves). So how could a modern human be related to this pre-human? Do we have Neanderthal genes? I suppose we do, if we all had common ancestors. Still, the article seems to leave out a lot of details.

[Junior]

I'm a little confused, too. Awhile back I found some information pinpointing a genetic bottleneck for humanity at between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago. At this time, the human race was reduced to less than 20,000 individuals in eastern Africa. Now, it is conceivable that the folks living in England at this time were not modern humans, but Homo Erectus, the precursor of both Homo Sapien and Homo Neanderthalensis.