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The nicest thing I can say is that it may inspire some neat scifi stories. The author has some very odd theories about junk DNA ... Anyway for those who'd like
by quant18 17y ago
The nicest thing I can say is that it may inspire some neat scifi stories. The author has some very odd theories about junk DNA ...
Anyway for those who'd like more background on Mr. Vendramini:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/origin-of-a-big-idea/2006/01/02/1136050390209.html?page=fullpage http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/origin-of-a-big-idea/...
edit: though to be fair, he does have a good point about the anthropomorphising assumptions behind all those "artistic reconstructions" of what Neanderthals might have looked like.
- JacobAldridge 17y agoWell, it took a patent clerk to find the missing pieces to Newton's laws, and that took 150 years , so an "amateur biologist" evolving Darwin's theories? Why not. But I'll agree it's unlikely. After all, the first comment on this site "I couldn't put it down once...etc" is from Don Burke on Radio 2UE ... well-known to all Australians as the long-running host of our favourite gardening program.
- paulbaumgart 17y agoI don't know much about the subject, but I read through the first half of his paper ( http://themandus.org/abstract.html http://themandus.org/abstract.html ) and it seems reasonably well argued, fair in assessing the strength of the evidence supporting his hypotheses, and overall very scholarly. I don't think his ideas can be dismissed out of hand.
- kqr2 17y agoAccording to the authors, this is a more realistic depiction of what Neanderthals probably looked like: http://themandus.org/what_they_looked_like.html http://themandus.org/what_they_looked_like.html