Re: Breaking Neander News

Glen wrote

> So... you're saying that Neanderthal's had Rh- but the surrounding

human

> population, who in no way spoke a direct ancestor of Basque at the

time, had

> Rh+. They intermingled, producing a strange Rh- dominant group of

hybrid

> humanoids in Europe. As time went on, and particularly after 6000

BCE I

> suppose, the Rh- gene slowly _lessened_ in dominance, producing the

80% seen

> in Basques because of the encroaching Rh+ dominant genes from the

Middle

> East that had been infused into the original population? Oy veh. I

have to

> sit down for that one.

You got it. Let me get you the chair. :-)

John