The question you people should ask, is will the next step in evolution in man, want to have sex with man and women of today. I doubt it.

I do not believe in evolution, and i think alot of this is just down to guessing.

Originally posted by Selahobed
Neandathal=human with rickets

Very interesting angle!

Thankyou for that. I like it when someone tells me something I haven't heard before. This is what ATS is about!

IRM

First off, Neanderthals were not modern humans with rickets, nor any pathological form of homo sapiens. They were considerably larger than modern man. Now maybe a Neanderthal with rickets could have been confused for a modern human fossil, I'm sure they suffered all the same maladies we do.

Not everybody agrees if they were a different species than us, but if they were a different species than us, they were still human. Just a different species of human.

Which i find quite cool, i wish they were still around

That is what I find so fascinating - we've become so convinced we are the only intelligent species on the planet, what would it be like having several neighboring intelligent species, with their own languages, cultures, art, etc. Most people don't stop to think about the fact we didn't evolve from the Neanderthal, they were a different branch of evolution for homo. Neanderthals may have only spread throughout Europe, but were pockets of Neanderthals isolated enough to develop different races (as we find with modern man)? Did they interbreed with Cro-Magnon, rather than with modern man? Did pockets of these hybrids survive in isolation as short-lived species before they, like all the other species of homo (excluding us), went extinct?

There's so many competing theories out there, and no one can agree on anything. Hopefully mapping the genomes of Neanderthals and Cro Magnon will shed some light on the subject. I'm still reminded of the biblical passage (inherited from earlier Sumerian writings) of the "sons of god and the daughters of men". If the "sons of god", thought of as being the Sethite line by biblical scholars, were in some way a remnant line from such a merging between Neanderthal or Cro Magnon, or any hybrid species produced by such unions led to a race of men that were distinguished from modern man. Supposedly the intermarriage of the sons of god (the Sethite line) with the daughters of men (a Cainite race) led to the race of "violent men" regarded as the Nephilim, did King Og or Goliath belong to such a race that (using portions of the bible as a anecdotal record of history) was of greater stature than modern homo sapien? Perhaps they were the descendants of one of these unknown hybrid races that managed to last longer than we imagined (I know the above comment is way off topic and a bit "fringey", my apologies!)

This is very interesting matter.

I hybridize species myself (rodents, birds, reptiles etc) and came to the conclusion that the so called " species barrier" is quite thin at some points.

Mammals usually have infertile hybrid males the first 5 generations, in reptiles and birds the opposite is true and the first 5 generation of hybrid females are infertile. However I've also found exceptions to that case. Sometimes a first generation male mammal is fertile and reproduces in " normal " way... Their children are fertile and capable of maintaining themselves if placed in a environment where adequate food and water is present.

Some rules as stated in many books (rules like " a species needs the same diploid number to hybridize " ) appear not to be true in my experiences. So the possibility for human/neanderthal hybrids that reproduce doesn't seem that far of to me.

[edit on 28-10-2009 by DrDragonfly]

Judging by some of the ladies my mates end up taking home on a Friday night, I'd say humans are still copulatung with Neanderthals!

Peace, kiwifoot!

[edit on 28-10-2009 by kiwifoot]

How kinky, though not suprising.
Wouldn't that be considered a form of beastiality, in reverse?

edit: ... for the record, I was responding to the original question by the OP, not to the post above mine.

[edit on 28-10-2009 by Alxandro]

Originally posted by Alxandro
How kinky, though not suprising.
Wouldn't that be considered a form of beastiality, in reverse?

Remember its just guess work.

I probably shouldn't say this(I don't want him as an enemy) but I always thought that Nikolai Valuev(the beast from the east) looks like a neaderthal

I can't tell you how many times I've looked at some people and thought "there's living proof Neanderthals never went extinct..."

I don't doubt that other humanoid species could be genetically compatible with us. My biggest question has always been:

Who do you think discovered fire first?

Sure most of you will say it was us, but how do you not know it was them?

Interesting perspective.
Thanks for posting this. I'm doing some research into this very thing.

Thanks again