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Fellow Unbelievers,

Several comments on all the great stories in the Sunday School:

First, I wonder if this is where Leon Benjamin got his bony battle bugle?:

Shofar So Good ✡️😁

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Reg,

Charging cars anywhere at anytime is not the way to go, Stanford study finds.

Fixed That For Them. 😎

Robert i was not questioning the reality of zoonoses. You wrote…One possibility is that a Homo Sapiens born pathogen jumped species and became novel in Neanderthals and wiped them out. I took born to be borne and took issue with the notion that Neanderthal and Homo Sapien are different species. And i agree that a pathogen can make short work of…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

But that could be because we all inherited it from a previous ancestor?

What I have read is that neanderthals and homo sapiens both evolved from homo heidelbergensis – the neanderthals in Europe, homo sapiens in Africa.

Damn, that was fast….OK, Go ask Alice.

Then go listen to Alice.

We Homo sapiens have between 1% to 3% Neanderthal DNA in our genome. I understand that we got it by interbreeding with Neanderthal. We also have Denisovan DNA, who lived on after Neanderthal became extinct. Both ‘kinds” existed for longer than our species so far has. All three branches of human share some identical genetic information.

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jakelafort wrote:

I am taking a firm stance against the pathogen hypothesis. Same species. So no species jump. Neanderthal fossils have been found in many locations in Europe and Asia. It is hard to imagine the population was sufficient to enable contamination from one group of Neanderthals to the next in a manner that resulted in extinction.…

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jakelafort wrote:

Same species. So no species jump.

That’s a good point as well.  They were sufficiently closely related that they could hybridise.

I am taking a firm stance against the pathogen hypothesis.

Same species. So no species jump. Neanderthal fossils have been found in many locations in Europe and Asia. It is hard to imagine the population was sufficient to enable contamination from one group of Neanderthals to the next in a manner that resulted in extinction. There must have been…[Read more]

@robert – that’s a very good point.

RE: New archaeology dives into the mysterious demise of the Neanderthals.

One possibility is that a Homo Sapiens born pathogen jumped species and became novel in Neanderthals and wiped them out. After all, many of us have a bit of Neanderthal in the family, so to speak.

Thanks, Reg!

Have a great week everyone!

Fellow Unbelievers,

Correction: Nearly two generations counting from 1979. Ayatollah Khomeini probably aspired for a nuclear Islamic Iran before that even in his exile in France.

Reg and Fellow Unbelievers,

I didn’t know where else to put these stories, but since you mention the brutal murder of Mahsa Amini, I thought here is as good a place as any.

Is this the beginning of the end for the Ayatollahs and Mullahs in Iran? We can only wait and see and hope…

At Least 9 Killed as Iran Protests Over Woman’s Death…[Read more]

Thanks Robert, it was on my list for a while.

That Coffee Break Video:  The life-long learner was pretty damn good. I have had some pretty amazing mentors and professors along the way myself. None of them came from my pre-university Catholic education. In fact, the Catholics functioned as anti-role models for me.

Thanks, Reg!!

Have a great week everyone!