FYI, Neanderthals are currently classified as homo sapiens. You have to reference outdated texts to find them classified as Homo Neanderthalis (sp).
Regards, Bob Blakely --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes." - Robert Frost ----- Original Message ----- From: "graywolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It is not even proven that Neanderthals were a separate species. They were > almost certainly tool using culture, although there are a few > anthropologists still arguing against that. >> >> AFAIK, there's been some claims that the neanderthals were displaced >> by H. sapiens precisely because the latter had more creative and >> inventive brains, but also AFAIK, it's not very well substantiated. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
