What Happened When Humans Met An 'Alien' Intelligence? Sex Happened : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR
We were more recently up from Africa, still dark skinned. They'd been 200,000 years in Europe, had grown fair, freckled and some of them had red or blond hair. And while you wouldn't know it from looking, their brains were even bigger than ours, at over 1700 cubic centimeters. "That's about 300 ccs larger than your brain or mine," says Walter. We had never seen their like, but you, you reading this, you know them from photos and magazines. They were Neanderthals. And Neanderthals have gotten a bum rap for the last hundred years.
What Happened When Humans Met An 'Alien' Intelligence? Sex Happened : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR
(I'm trying out LJ's "share this" feature, which I'm sure is their answer to the social sharing buttons for Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr that are all over the web.)
Since I mentioned my love of paleoanthropology recently, here's a nicely-written little contemplation about Homo sapiens meeting Neanderthals. It's well known now that we interbred, but I think there are still a lot of ideas about Neanderthals that we're gradually disproving. I downloaded a sample of the book mentioned, Last Ape Standing, and I'll probably splurge and buy the whole thing. It could be my book of the year, like 1491 and 1493 were in the last two years.
I'd love to have a DNA test that tells me my percentage of Neanderthal. I imagine it's a lot more expensive than ordering a breed analysis for Memphis, though!
What Happened When Humans Met An 'Alien' Intelligence? Sex Happened : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR
(I'm trying out LJ's "share this" feature, which I'm sure is their answer to the social sharing buttons for Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr that are all over the web.)
Since I mentioned my love of paleoanthropology recently, here's a nicely-written little contemplation about Homo sapiens meeting Neanderthals. It's well known now that we interbred, but I think there are still a lot of ideas about Neanderthals that we're gradually disproving. I downloaded a sample of the book mentioned, Last Ape Standing, and I'll probably splurge and buy the whole thing. It could be my book of the year, like 1491 and 1493 were in the last two years.
I'd love to have a DNA test that tells me my percentage of Neanderthal. I imagine it's a lot more expensive than ordering a breed analysis for Memphis, though!