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Monday, September 26, 2011

The Grandparents

Fascinating article from National Geographic on the recent discoveries on our Neanderthal genetic heritage.

This is part of a discussion at Nick's Place sparked by the news that the Australian Aborigines were the first modern humans to migrate out of Africa, which I commented on a couple of days ago.

Two things that strike me about this whole thing: people were amazingly mobile throughout prehistory, and all the bullshit about "racial purity" is just that -- bullshit.
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