Re: Neanderthals...

Richard Spear (rspear@primenet.com)
Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:31:44 GMT

bcat@netcom.com (Bearcat) wrote:

>Alex Duncan (aduncan@mail.utexas.edu) wrote:
>: In article <435ohh$k99@freenet.hut.fi> Aila Korhonen,
>: ailak@mail.freenet.hut.fi writes:

>: Where'd you get 2 Myr? Most of the evidence I'm aware of suggest
>: possible separation by 300 kyr, or perhaps a little older, depending on
>: how old you think Petralona might be.

>She's talking about Homo erectus, not modern humans.

> - Bearcat

That's still too long, I think. Erectus is about 1mya, yes?

Richard