That's one theory I never heard before - interesting.Up to this point, I'd heard only claims by palaeoanthropologists  that modern humans might have killed off the Neanderthals through cannibalism.At any rate, I think it extremely unlikely that the Neanderthals didn't interbreed with modern humans to some extent.

 

Geoff




 
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:52:32 -0500
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> Subject: Re: Latest On Dietary Acid/Base Balance Being Crucial
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> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:46, Geoffrey Purcell wrote:
> 
> >I merely wanted to point out that until recently, it was thought that 
> >Neanderthals in Europe ate only meat from large wild game such as 
> >mammoths - and it was also wrongly suggested, at the time, that the 
> >Neanderthals died out due to this lack of variety when the larger mammals 
> >died out. However, in recent times, it's been pointed out that the 
> >Neanderthals in Europe did in fact have a very varied diet including lots of 
> >seafood and plants and nuts and even small game, not just meat from the
> >Neanderthalis may have eaten sapiens
> 
> An alternative hypothesis has been proposed by Danny Vendramini, in his book
> Them and Us. Vendramini proposes that Eurasian Neanderthals hunted, killed
> and cannibalised early humans for 50,000 years in an area of the Middle East
> known as the Mediterranean Levant Because the two species were sexually
> compatible, Eurasian Neanderthals also abducted and raped human females. He
> says that a prolonged period of cannibalistic and sexual predation began
> about 100,000 years ago and that by 50,000 years ago, the human population
> in the Levant was reduced to as few as 50 individuals. The death toll from
> Neanderthal predation generated the selection pressure that transformed the
> tiny survivor population of early humans into modern humans. This Levantine
> group became the founding population of all humans living today. He argues
> that modern human physiology, sexuality, aggression, propensity for
> inter-group violence and human nature all emerged as a direct consequence of
> systematic long-term dietary and sexual predation by Eurasian Neanderthals.
> 
> http://www.themandus.org/
> 
> Keith
 		 	   		  
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