Here is information from Erik Trinkaus claiming that early modern humans
exhibited Neanderthal traits.



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Gerry






The Emerging Fate Of The Neandertals


<http://www.sciencedaily.com/> Science Daily - For nearly a century,
anthropologists have been debating the relationship of Neandertals to modern
humans. Central to the debate is whether Neandertals contributed directly or
indirectly to the ancestry of the early modern humans that succeeded them.


The Oase 2 (Upper) and Muierii 1 (Lower) crania in norma lateralis left. In
an article appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., professor of anthropology at Washington University in
St. Louis, has brought together data showing that early modern humans did
exhibit evidence of Neandertal traits. (Credit: Romanian Academy/Muzeul
Olteni/Erik Trinkaus)

As this discussion has intensified in the past decades, it has become the
central research focus of Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., professor of anthropology at
Washington University in St. Louis. Trinkaus has examined the earliest
modern humans in Europe, including specimens in Romania, Czech Republic and
France. Those specimens, in Trinkaus' opinion, have shown obvious Neandertal
ancestry.

In an article appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, Trinkaus has brought together the available data, which shows that
early modern humans did exhibit evidence of Neandertal traits.

"When you look at all of the well dated and diagnostic early modern European
fossils, there is a persistent presence of anatomical features that were
present among the Neandertals but absent from the earlier African modern
humans," Trinkaus said. "Early modern Europeans reflect both their
predominant African early modern human ancestry and a substantial degree of
admixture between those early modern humans and the indigenous Neandertals."


This analysis, along with a number of considerations of human genetics,
argues that the fate of the Neandertals was to be absorbed into modern human
groups. Just as importantly, it also says that the behavioral difference
between the groups were small. They saw each other as social equals.

Source: Washington University in St. Louis
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Comment:
It is a pity they didn't survive.......they would have made great rock
musicians.

Posted by
Robert Karl Stonjek