(urth) The problem of Cthulhu

[Daniel D Jones]

On Thursday 21 June 2007 03:11, don doggett wrote:
> --- Andy Robertson <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk> wrote:
> > I like your other ideas but don't much credit the
> > interbreeding thing.
> >
> > OTOH Neanderthals as grendels I can swallow.
>
> How about this one?
>
>  from http://xchar.home.att.net/n2a/medhyp.htm
>
> "The Neanderthals, I propose, disappeared from Europe
> and Asia for the same reason that the mammoths
> disappeared: we ate them."

I suspect he's probably more right than he does.  Neanderthals probably DID 
disappear for a reason similar to that of the mammoths.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/ice-age.html