Re: DISCOVER/Neanderthal/Homo Sap.

pete (VINCENT@REG.TRIUMF.CA)
20 Sep 1995 19:56:05 GMT

Muttiah (muttiah) sez:
`preno@Phoenix.kent.edu (Philip Reno) wrote:

`>
`>Also, it may be the case that the skin clor of southern East Indians,
`>may be a good model for Cro-Magnon skin pigmentation.

`That as you go south the Indians get darker ? Perhaps you are right,
`but can we rule out that people didn't sexually select for darker skins ?

why invoke something that complicated? How about simple indiscriminate
interbreeding with the indigenous dravidians?

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