In the Seven Daughters of Eve, it states that mitochondrial DNA testing
shows that our last common ancestor with the Neanderthals was about 250,000
years ago.  They would certainly be obvious in a shopping mall.   They lived
in Europe during an ice age and the archealogical record reveals they had no
needles.  So they must have been covered in thick fur.  Ken

> Sure, it makes sense.  I don't know how to answer it, though.  It
> seems that Neanderthal and Cro Magnon (=us) had a common
> ancestor, which must have been at least a half million years ago,
> maybe more.  If a Neanderthal walked into a shopping mall, people
> would stare.  The genetic evidence appears to be increasingly
> against the hypothesis, once popular, that we descended from the
> Neanderthal.

> Todd Moody
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