From: Amadeus Schmidt > Turkey isn't a very northern latitude. Exactly my point. Northern climate conditions extended far south during ice ages. What we now consider northern regions were covered in ice and thus uninhabitable to man or beast. Much of the land of Asia, Europe and Africa (now considered temperate) was subject to permafrost which inhibited the growth of trees and resulted in steppe-tundra. Those areas now considered simi-tropical were temperate dry grasslands and forests. Tropical areas were much smaller and drier than they are today and resulted in pressure for hominids to move into the more productive temperate regions to become Homos. This is the world that we were born into. It was far different than the world today. Many of the remnants of the Pleistoce megafauna ( horses, camels, cows, pigs, etc.) have only been able to survive in this modern post flood) world because of domestication ( the Covenant of the Ark) and depend on our eating them for their continued survival. Don't make them a victim of your "enlightenment". Likewise don't deny Neanderthals their place as our ancestors based on racial profiling ( Hitler would have loved DNA testing). Who cares when the Jews separated from the Aryians - we are all still humans. Ray Audette Author "NeanderThin" http://www.neanderthin.com