Question:
What an interesting question this is! Has anybody got any answers to it? So we could elect one as president of the U.S. Duh.
Only one? Or, only one that you are admitting to? Puck Greenman #162 BAAWA Knight.
Response:
One day in alt.atheism, Also Sprach bob young: What an interesting question this is! Has anybody got any answers to it? Yes. No god did that thing So, then, it was NoGod that created prehistoric time?
That means Odin. (No – Internet domain of Norway) :) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – — Vic Sagerquist aa#2011 Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he’ll starve to death while praying for a fish. –Timothy Jones
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – The fossil records (which do not allow DNA typing) are not complete enough to give any indication that Neanderthals were another species of human though that is a commonly held (and possibly mistaken) idea. They could have been a mutation of humans just as easily which is just as plausible as the current evolutionary thought. Er….DNA analysis has been done on Neanderthal remains, many times: just check past issues of Nature and Science. Care to explain how you get DNA from a fossilized bone?
By picking out a well-preserved piece, drilling inside to get some bone that hasn’t been exposed to contamination, handling it with great care, dissolving it to get at the DNA, and then let a PCR reaction with a suitable primer amplify whatever pieces of DNA that may be there. Works only for fairly recent fossils ( < 100,000 years old or so), and doesn’t work every time, but for sufficiently well-preserved specimens it does work. We have DNA from several Neanderthals, as well as mammoths, cave bears, giant sloths, and a few other Ice Age critters. Details are given in the references below. Some are available online, e.g. at http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/96/10/5581 * H
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