>If Neanderthal Man was not our ancestor, but only a very distant
>cousin, then all your attempts to show similarities between
>Neanderthal and Homo sapiens are interesting but theologically
>irrelevant.
The only thing the neanderthal report rules out is a direct line of maternal
descent. There are other ways for Neanderthal women to leave some of their
genes in modern populations. Such a process is chromosomal cross-over. By
the way, the authors of the report state,
"These results do not rule out the possibility that
Neandertals contributed other genes to modern humans. "Matthias Krings, et
al., "Neandertal DNA Sequences and the Origin of Modern Humans," Cell,
90:19-30, p. 27
Thus my efforts may not be irrelevant.
glenn
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