Re: Modern Neanderthals?

David N. Barnett (davidbarnett@aristotle.net)
Thu, 24 Oct 1996 06:12:00 GMT

scriptu@cats.ucsc.edu (Daniel D Scripture) wrote:

>And third, and this is more whimsical, and is prompted by a number of
>posts in this thread, just how many people reading this thread think
>that they have some clearly identifiable Neandertal feature?
>
>Since I've asked a personal question, I'm bound to answer first:
>
>I have a very obvious occipital bun, or at least obvious when my hair
>is cut short....

The profusion of hair on my sholders and back has often made me
wonder, half-jokingly, if the gene pool from which I sprung might not
include a shortcut all the way back to Homo Erectus.

--dnb