http://www.time.com/time/...tml?hpt=C2


It's been long hypothesized that early humans and the hominide "Neanderthal",
which existed 400,000 to 30,000 years ago had possibly interbred from time to
time.

It was always believed that while coming into contact with each other in
Europe, where they mysteriously disappeared, that there had to be
some intermixing between the two variations of homonides.


These suspicious have been confirmed by an examination of 60% of the
Neanderthal genome. It appears that the 'mixing' occurred much earlier
than expected, approximately 80,000 years ago in the middle east/north Africa
which means that we were in contact with each other tens of thousands
of years prior to their extinction. If we did drive them to
extinction, we took our own sweet time doing it.


Interesting article.

Interesting. I remember watching a documentary about this in anthropology class in college. There was a hulky bearded scientist who simply stated someting to the effect of, look at me - of course we intermingled.

They probably didn't just disappear, they were absorbed!

xpertluva said:

oh lawd


I've always believed that evolution in humans has stopped since the invention of modern society. This is because we no longer need to be the fastest, strongest, smartest anything--our environment gives us a stable, unchanging modernly convenient place to survive and even the ugliest, most stupid among us can breed.


However, I saw on some documentary that when the genome is inspected it appears that the rate of evolutionary change in human beings is accelerating--this will cause an Asian in America to be dramatically different than one in Mainland China within only a few dozen generations.

Fascinating.

TheVoid said:

in less than a generation westerners should have adapted completely to a high-carb diet and won't get fat off it

wishful thinking

ZombieKitten said:

I've thought about that. It seems plausible.




I'm trying to remember then name of the ethnic group in China that is currently going extinct if it hasn't already.

I can't remember all the details, but I remember hearing it on NPR about 3 years ago.


Anyways, this group actually a 'dwarf' group of people who once lived in isolation. Isolated groups will sometimes become 'giant' or 'dwarf' sized over just a few generations. That's why isolated islands will produce what is often described as "gigantism" within certain species.

Anyways, to make a long story short, these people's facial features are considered quite ugly by the Chinese population in their province at large, and they're even shorter than the average Chinese male in the region---considerable shorter. They're dwarves.

The population decided unanimously about a generation ago that to prevent more generations from being discriminated against that they would just stop having children and cease to exist. I. was. stunned. It was very sad listening to it.

I wish I could remember the name of this ethnic group. It's gonna eat me up.










Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.--The Buddha

were they hot?

ZombieKitten said:

Oddly, western bodies (white Australians) still having adapted to Australia's climate. It was shown on the discovery channel that the native aborigines have high tolerances for heat and cold when compared to Europeans, often not needing to cover up during frigid nights nor suffering from the same levels of heat exhaustion during the days.

Again, another program I wish I could remember--it was due to the design of the body frame of the aborigines. The show was stunning. It showed several tourist completely bundled up around a campfire and obviously in a bit of discomfort, and their aboriginal guide only in a t-shirt and not displaying any sense of discomfort.

TheVoid said:

that's horrible!!!

TheVoid said:

he was obviously showing off



where I live, the climate is very mild really not that different to USA or Europe, we have days of extreme heat once or twice a year.

TheVoid said:

I'm not basin this on any scientific proof, just empirical knowledge from my lecturer of women anatomy.
Apparently womens pelvises are getting narrower and narrower. Especially from the "inside".
This is because we invented c-section and the narrow pelvic women and their offspring aren't dying due to complicated child births.

Mushanga said:

OMG, I just found out that Val makes Phil order "Dansahk" at the Indian restaurant near where they live just so she can hear him say, "Dan's Sack"




Anyways, yeah. That's fascinating Noora. I mean, about the pelvises and stuff.
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TheVoid said:

You know what's coming.....

TheVoid said:

I want some Dansahk too..

But yeah, tell me about it.
And with even though with narrower and narrower pelvises, even bigger and bigger babies can be born. Babies with bigger heads (brains) and shoulders.

I just read an article that suggest midwifery being 2,4-5 MILLION years old...
Lawd.

That's EVEN older than prostitution I think!

TheVoid said:

Are they black from the waist down?

Mushanga said:

I love you, non-native English speaker.

God, I'm so stupid.

Mushanga said:

Perhaps our babies will have heads that evolve to both accommodate their larger brains AND the narrower pelvises though?















Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.--The Buddha

Fauxie said:

For what?



You and me both apparently..

TheVoid said:

Oh no, aren't there already enough dickheads in the world...
Let alone this shagging of Neanderthals that keeps on going even today.


If we'd have babies, I wonder what they'd look like....
Where's Conan's If They Mated, when you need it..

Mushanga said:

Because you're so intelligent. Forget that you're gorgeous. How damn smart you are! I'm nice, that's all I have, but you're amazing.

Fauxie said:

Oh shut UP!!!

Is correctly spelling Empirical Knowledge a high merit in intelligence..?

we really needed to spend time and money to find out the obvious....some men will fuck anything! I'm just surprised that they didn't find human DNA in sheep when they were cloning Dolly

BklynBabe said:

...plus Clan of the Cave Bear already cleared that mystery up years ago.

Where's Alej when you need him?

This thread needs a "that's hot" (tm)

I fuck one every night!

PunkMistress said:

TheVoid said:

This was back when Prince still allowed himself to show some of that charming, slightly vulnerable, self-conscious quality he had.

Mushanga said:

It is to me!

BklynBabe said:

You echo some of the conversations I've had with my brother. I guess we're an anomaly as far as men are concerned. We actually have standards. lol But you're right, most men will screw anything. Just look at an episode of Cops where they pick up men soliciting prostitutes. Some of the women are toothless, drug addicted, and look as if they haven't bathed in weeks. Hell some of the women aren't even women!
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Fauxie said:

Cute.