From Earliest Modern Humans Found in Romanian Cave:
The jawbone of a cave-man living in what is now Romania is the oldest fossil from an early modern human to be found in Europe, U.S. researchers said on Monday.Primitive features such as heavy bone and tooth structure also support the controversial idea that Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals may have interbred, the researchers said.
The jawbone, found in southwestern Carpathian Mountains of Romania, was carbon-dated to between 34,000 and 36,000 years ago, said Erik Trinkaus of Washington University in St. Louis, who led the study.
A few thoughts:
From what I’ve gleaned from Hollywood movies (e.g., One Million Years BC), modern bikini models must have evolved directly from Neanderthal women. Neanderthal men, on the other hand, probably had much less luck interbreeding with Cro-Magnons.
Anyway, if I found an usual “human” jaw bone in the Carpathians, I’d immediately suspect that it belonged to a vampire — or maybe a werewolf. What kind of scientists come up with outlandish Neanderthal interbreeding hypotheses when Occam’s Razor clearly points to vampirism (or lycanthropy)?
OK, I couldn’t even type that with a straight face.