2nd April 2010, 5:28 PM
Remember you are personally at fault for it being cancelled :D.
There's some evidence of a small group of humans meeting neanderthals, but from everything I've read the evidence tends more towards neanderthals dying, if anything, indirectly from simply not being able to compete with humans. They stuck with local families, and humans were starting up clans and networks between other clans. There's also some evidence of some limited trade between the two groups. As for this new group, it's just been discovered, there's no way to know if humans had anything to do with it.
It's sure interesting that we like making "slightly different" sorts of humans so much in our fiction. From dwarves and elves to forehead aliens, we like tweaking ourselves slightly into alternate species and then having us interact with them a lot. Heck, superintelligent AI and robots are simply the latest example. I think the earliest example are "elemental spirits"...
There's some evidence of a small group of humans meeting neanderthals, but from everything I've read the evidence tends more towards neanderthals dying, if anything, indirectly from simply not being able to compete with humans. They stuck with local families, and humans were starting up clans and networks between other clans. There's also some evidence of some limited trade between the two groups. As for this new group, it's just been discovered, there's no way to know if humans had anything to do with it.
It's sure interesting that we like making "slightly different" sorts of humans so much in our fiction. From dwarves and elves to forehead aliens, we like tweaking ourselves slightly into alternate species and then having us interact with them a lot. Heck, superintelligent AI and robots are simply the latest example. I think the earliest example are "elemental spirits"...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)