Dave wrote:
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>From: D. F. Siemens, Jr. [mailto:dfsiemensjr@juno.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:55 PM
>To: wallyshoes@mindspring.com>
>As to ancient practice, consider that it was common for a conqueror to
>kill all the men and keep the women, although it was possible that all
>the residents were massacred. An entire lineage could be lost quickly.
And this is what makes me so incredulous at the treatment of Neanderthal
mtDNA. Europe was the very last place to be occupied by anatomically modern
man (AMH) (save the uninhabited New World). Many anthropologists believe it
was because Neanderthal was a fierce fighter. They were stronger than us as
can be determined by muscle attachment sites. Thus, if they beat a village
of AMH and took the women, then the children produced would have AMH mtDNA!
So when we test the mtDNA of ever more ancient Neanderthals and find that it
is different from modern mtDNA we then erroneously conclude that they left
no ancestors. It very well might have been that they did, through their AMH
wives.
glenn
see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
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