"What if Neanderthals were still alive?" Topic

"Lucy pushes an untidy mop of red hair away from her brow and puzzles for a moment over the problem she faces. Although she has a large brain and is quite strong, some things remain just beyond her abilities. Take the tablet she's pondering -- were it of the stone variety, she could imagine any number of things to do with it. She might carve the likeness of a wild animal onto its face, or break it into smaller pieces to sharpen and use for hunting. But this tablet, with its gleaming electronic visage and brightly colored icons, confuses this Neanderthal confronted by modern conveniences…."
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Armand

Actually I suspect I dormed with a few way back during my college days.

Same old 'dumb Neaderthal' trope. Very 19th Century. More likely 'Fritz dreads having to tell the coach he's got to miss training this week due to defending his PhD dissertation the same day'.

Half of all men, generally speaking, don't pass along their genes. We have been bred, to a certain extent, by our "civilized" societies- men that are more adapted to society are more likely, in general, to pass along their genes. The same effect would have to apply to "modern" Neanderthals, making Phil Hartman's unfrozen caveman lawyer more likely than barbarians.

About 4% of the genes in an average European are of the Neanderthal variety. Evolution sort of guaranteed that there's would only be one victor. Cro-Magnon man.

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an excellent trilogy

(smile)

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Armand