Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Human fossils set European record. This is very interesting... the implications surrounding sharing the European continent with the Neanderthals is especially interesting. Do you know anyone who exhibits the traditional Neanderthal qualities such as a heavy-set brow, short and stocky, little creativity? It's dangerous ground to start associating what we consider to be relatively negative attributes to people on the basis that they may have some Neanderthal lineage (remember the Aryans - in the Nazi meaning of the word?). Ironically, if we associate negative attributes with Neanderthal qualities it is interesting to remember that they have found elements of Neanderthal DNA in our own (Europeans) and I am unsure whether that is the case of the people who originate from Africa - if that is the case, surely people from Africa are the 'pure' homo-erectus... which is completely the opposite to what Hitler was trying to prove (if you make the assumption that a 'pure' human is the 'master-race').