Topic: Neanderthals may have interbred with humans

[sam]

Archaic humans such as Neanderthals may be gone but they're not forgotten — at least not in the human genome. A genetic analysis of nearly 2,000 people from around the world indicates that such extinct species interbred with the ancestors of modern humans twice, leaving their genes within the DNA of people today.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100420/full/news.2010.194.html

That explains 'up north' then.... 

[Clive]

   There was a series of fiction books during the late eighties with that very theme!   

[Rik]

 

Now we know where all the bouncers come from. 

[Simon]

And union leaders. 

[Rik]