h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I quite agree that we shouldn't judge people by race, colour, creed or other irrelevant criterion.

But I read in the New Scientist that non-Africans have a small amount of Neanderthal DNA. So perhaps Africans could say to Europeans "You're Neanderthals. We Africans have been homo sapiens longer than you!"

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Good observation, MVP.

I have Neanderthal genes. I am sure of this. So was my German dentist, when he pulled the fused molar out of my mouth. (Wisdom tooth, huge thing.) I read somewhere that Neanderthals had these fused molars.

I used to go to school with Neanderthals - well, they did live in the Neander River Valley...

A beautiful place, too.

I'll live alongside anyone, unless they prove not to be nice people

some of my PHILOSOPHIES, but not in any order

No1: Everybody is my friend, until they prove different.
No2: The pleasure of giving, is its own reward.
No3: Insulting people, is not a way of life.
No4: I treat all insults as compliments, that way I get more.
No5: I never try to be anyone other than me.
No6: Be true and loyal to close friends, one day you may need to count on them.
No7: Manners cost nothing, so why hasn't more people got them.
No8: Do everything in my power, to cheer people up, if their down.
No9: Always look to the front, to see what you can learn..Only look to the back, to see what you have forgotten.
No10: Always laugh at life,because life can be a bitch otherwise.
No11: Everything that I do in life, I do in good faith, not to harm or insult.
No12: Death can't stop me from being an idiot, it can only slow me down.
No13: Sadness is just another part of life.BUT! it will never be part of mine.
No14: Each friend I gain, makes me a RICHER person, far greater than having money.
No15: May the WOLF run as free on the ground, as the EAGLE flies in the air and may MANKIND learn to live as one, denouncing HATRED.
No16: Don't think you know all the answers -.-.-ASK the questions first.
No17: Just because you don't see anything, isn't proof there is nothing there.
No18: I will face life head on, win or lose I will never take a step backwards
No19:When the hard gets impossible! mankind! will invent an answer!.
No20:Some people might be able to bend me. But! NO ONE will ever break me.
No21:Wisdom is beyond price! what a shame that many can't afford even a minute amount .
No22:If you can't take or listen to advice! then don't try to give it.

by 'eck this is a very philosophical thread - my lizard brain cannot find the words right now to respond, and yet fine writing mister DG, as always and ever. I feel forever a deep pain in my tiny heart when I think about division and cruelty and it all, and it usually takes me beyond verbal expression -

and then there is the lizard brain. I once knew someone who was so into the idea of a part of the human brain that is reptilian, that he talked to me about it for many many nights, until one day I awoke and felt akin to iguanas everywhere. Are lizards reptiles? Is any of this relevant? No. It is quite interesting though. I think all humans have a part of the brain that is reptilian, but I'm not sure, so I am going now.

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Helen, even the reptilian part of your brain is friendly.

As for Prof Animal Chaos, he says he's a Viking, and I believe him. I think that makes him an honorary Neanderthal.

I'm more like the missing link - dnaimpossibleous

MVP, be warned: people tend to show up in threads that I'm on and derail them.

I foresee a train wreck in about 2 posts...

me too

Cactuscafe, if Neanderthals became Europeans, some lizards learnt to fly and became birds.

A bird brain would be great, because you could see life from an altogether different perspective.

Not to mention having eagle eyes...

Including the lever on the back of the head that makes them go from side to side?

on stage tonight! Ne and Erthals - comedy due, a blast from the past

Yuh. .

On stage tonight .... the potential is infinite. I would like to play the part of an atom. That's a test for the costume department.

And now I shall consider flying lizards, and the flying-brain of a bird. I don't think I would like to become total bird. That might be too birdie for me. I would like to still be me, but with the brain of a flying lizard-bird also. Sort of thing, like. Do I feel a story coming on? I don't know, said I to I, eye to eye with evolution. .



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Eye to eye with evolution.

Me, I'd like the flying part, but I don't want the bird brain, I think...I'm too mammal-y.