Early humans Showed Traits of Neanderthals >From our ANI Correspondent Washington, Apr 24: A new study by a Washington University anthropologist has revealed that early humans showed traits of Neanderthals. As part of his study, Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, examined the earliest modern humans in Europe, including specimens in Romania, Czech Republic and France. According to him, those specimens did exhibit evidence of Neanderthal ancestry. "When you look at all of the well dated and diagnostic early modern European fossils, there is a persistent presence of anatomical features that were present among the Neanderthals but absent from the earlier African modern humans," said Prof. Trinkaus. "Early modern Europeans reflect both their predominant African early modern human ancestry and a substantial degree of admixture between those early modern humans and the indigenous Neanderthals," he said. The study appears in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"