The Inquirer’s Faye Flam, who tends to get right to the birds and the bees angle on the news, looks at an artist’s depiction of a bare Neanderthal man and puts him on her maybe list. The story is about DNA — remember a short time ago that researchers are going to try to reconstruct the Neanderthal genome — and speculation whether Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis interbred a bit in iceage Europe. This is one of the more readable recent excursions through paleoanthropology news. The image has nothing to do with Faye’s story; it is scurrilous, it popped up on Google Image, and caught The Tracker’s Eye.

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See also: earlier post Jul 21: AP, NYTimes, WS Journal, etc: Neanderthal Genome Project Launched ;

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