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Still... the Cro-Magnon genome is Homo sapiens, without a doubt. The neandertal one, no. What will be found, if anything, to show neandertal ancestry of modern humans, will be some isolated allele or 2, nothing basic or indicating more than a very small bit of neandertal ancestry. Nowadays it...

Indoeuropeans AND indigènes... As for this argument here... you know I can't find either of you wrong. The new info about the high % of Indoeuropean (R) genes in Western Europe is surprising, but does indicate a spread of PEOPLE, not just culture/language. On the other hand, one still cannot...

PS... I do not need the CIA's assistance to silence insulting bigots such as yourself... be assured of that.

Who's brainwashed here? Not me, fool... Listen, Miss Smartypants, you are being offensive and gratuitously so. You were just looking for any Yank to kick, is that it? YOU are obviously brainwashed by someone... CIA? LOL... You know nothing of me. The fact is, you've said nothing. GW Bush...

Yes. It would seem that this earlier R1b, the one found in Cameroons, evolved in the Mideast, BEFORE the Indoeuropean ancestors had moved northward when the glaciation decreased. So it is quite ancient. Don't tell this information to an Afrocentric... they get hysterical about this...

USA "conservatives"... conserving corporate power Many libertarians in the USA claim that they are the true conservatives... This confusion of terms is great. In the 1960's, "liberal" was a bad word among the left, it meant fake Democrats who were essentially sell-outs. Now that there is no...

Yes, while Canada could probably be assimilated by the EU, I fear the USA remains too socially backwards. We "progressives" in the USA can see the advantages to the socially more advanced character of nearly every other developed nation... but we languish due to the backwards reactionism of much...

The Christian establishment was once like that. As under Sharia law, clerics enforced law and punishments in Europe. Most of us consider it a positive social evolution that has led Europe and in most respects the USA toward an enlightened secularism which endeavors to keep government and...

Creationists vs Education In the USA, this problem goes even beyond Creationism. Christian fundamentalists affect education in many ways. One of the most pernicious is in their influence on textbook publishers. Since they want to produce a uniform text for the entire country, they have to make...

Reactionism... it's always stupid You, Miss Marple, cannot make a point without claiming I am a "brainwashed American" thinking "as the CIA wishes"??? That is not a good thing to say to my face, for your own safety. You obviously have nothing to say. I was criticizing GW Bush and I'm...

It would appear that these days with common EU citizenship, the advantage accruing to a Yank for speaking English is gone... they will more readily hire Brits for those jobs. In Spain I used to work freelance translating lab reports for Sandoz and such companies, from Castilian into English...

Bloody Romans... Well I'm no fan of the Romans... so I would point out that few of the advances mentioned were first to appear among the Romans. Harappan urban design was far superior, plumbing of course existed among many civilizations, including the Aztecs, who also had water-delivery systems...

Why can't USA newscasters speak English? The problems Maciamo points out with French-speaking newscasters are even more pronounced in the USA. Newscasters here not only cannot pronounce words from French, German, Italian, etc., but not even SPANISH, when we have at LEAST 35 million Castilian...

Islam and Islamicism Amen to that, Euromuslim!!! GW's approach did nothing but stir up every possible anti-USA sentiment in the Muslim world. Obama is a true diplomat, and the response to his reasonable approach can only be a lessening of tensions. My hope is that with decreased hostility...

El pueblo español... that's it. :useless:Sorry...actually the park is called: El pueblo español.

Viva la diférence! This is exciting stuff to me. I have always thought that the view of Europe as being divided into "nations" is not accurate, does not reflect reality, and even going back 2000 or more years, the notion that European society and culture are at their heart or root...

Oh my GOD I saw a NEANDERTAL!!! Now let's not get carried away... just because you share some trait with neandertals doesn't mean it is from the same gene. I do believe that the red-haired gene in H. sapiens has been identified as originating in a separate mutation from that of neandertals...

We need more evidence!!! Yes... in general, though advances are constantly forthcoming, we are still in a period of the infancy of genome analysis. Genes which act as "switches" to turn on other genes, and other complications keep arising to confound the conclusions reached with the earliest...

Outside influences on America While I would never discourage anyone from pursuing any possibilities regarding human history... since that's how we come up with new ideas and sometimes good ones... there are some caveats to postulating outside influences in America. Keep in mind that the...

Out-of-Africa is supported by DNA evidence First, I believe that C. Coon was thrown out of the AAA for being a racist. He believed that the cold climate made white people smarter, that the tropics made black people lazy and stupid. The Neandertal genome has been sequenced. It is COMPLETELY...