Did Neanderthals give us our Big Brains- November 10, 2006 Neanderthals may have given the modern humans who replaced them a priceless gift -- a gene that helped them develop superior brains, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.And the only way they could have provided that gift would have been by interbreeding, teams at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Chicago said.Their study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provides indirect evidence that modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred at...http://www.frimlin.com/links/2006/11/did-neanderthals-give-us-our-big.php |