Even if later Neanderthals didn't breed with Cro Magnon, I'm sure earlier
ones did.

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From: "Michael C. Gross" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 11:37 AM
Subject: Neanderthals


> Has anyone seen the 2- or 3-hour Discovery Channel documentary
> "Neanderthal"?  I found it to be pretty intelligently done.  ("The Making
> of Neanderthal", which was 1 hour, was pretty interesting, too.)  The
> Neanderthals were painted as reasonably intelligent people, whose fatal
> flaw was an inability to adapt.  In particular, they failed to develop
> their weapons to compete with the Cro-Magnons.  One interesting
> tidbit:  some anthropologists believe that significant interbreeding
> occurred, and that some Neanderthal DNA survives, to this day, in all of
> us.
>
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