you can find sucs as “Rly as25,000 years ago and may or of to t of ly descended fromcreatures t o homo sapiens.

    tically (and I believe sincerely) dismisses t  and accounts for ty of ion by suggesting t t of movement back and fortures and regions. “tosuppose t people only  in one direction,”  t certainly sic material terbreeding. Ne replace tions, tuation to e peoples for t time. “t meetings of different species, but of th some physical differences.”

    you actually see in ts, is a smootinuoustransition. “tralona in Greece, dating from about 300,000 yearsago, t ter of contention among traditionalists because it seems in some  in ot  t  to find in species t han being displaced.”

    One t ters erbreeding, but t isnot at all easy to prove, or disprove, from fossils. In 1999, arcs in Portugal found ton of a c four years old t died 24,500 years ago. ton  ain arcal, ceristics: unusually sturdy legbones, teetinctive “stern, and (t everyone agrees on it)an indentation at ture exclusive toNeandertals. Erik trinkaus of ason University in St. Louis, ty onNeandertals, announced to be a  modern alsinterbred. Otroubled t tal and modern features more blended. As one critic put it: “If you look at a mule, you don’t  endlooking like a donkey and the back end looking like a horse.”

    Ian tattersall declared it to be nots ttals and moderns, butdoesn’t believe it could ed in reproductively successful offspring.

    1“I don’t kno are t different and still in the samespecies,