New Fossil
Posted Fri Sep 22, 2006, 8:18 AM ET
Discovery of a "hybrid" skeleton in Portugal has paleontologists speculating that it might be the result of Neanderthal/modern human mating, perhaps challenging the "out of Africa" scenario.
Yeah, I know the interaction between proto-humans and Neanderthals has been the subject of a lot of fiction, but I've always felt that paleontologist Björn Kurtén's Dance of the Tiger was the best—not least for its tender/hot scenes of Cro-Magnon/Neanderthal sex. Dance speculated that Neanderthals did not so much die out as much as become "bred out." Kurtén called Dance "paleo-fiction" because he was convinced things must have developed along the lines he proposed, but he lacked a fossil record confirming it.
Maybe that evidence was just discovered down a rabbit hole in Portugal.
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