Re: Could there be a Gnarly Man in current times?

On Thu, 9 May 2024 16:19:19 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/9/2024 2:45 PM, Mickmane wrote:

On 09.05.24, Michael F. Stemper  <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

On 08/05/2024 06.20, Mickmane wrote:

On 08.05.24, Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

 

[2] He also invented soup, by necessity, since his teeth wore out
and he hadn?t invented false teeth yet.

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With your description of the book (which I don't know), I'm now
wondering how his teeth wore out, but not the rest of his body.

 

Presumably, the friction involved in chewing would do the trick.
Unlike most of the body, teeth aren't self-repairing.

 
Hrmpf. Either it all repairs itself so he can live forever, or nothing
does and it's some magic keeping him alive, including the teeth. :P
 

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I feel like throwing in that modern humans have some Neanderthal DNA.
23andMe tells me that I have more markers than 99% of their customer
base, which probably puts me around 2% caveman.

From Bing:

"Approximately 20 percent of Neanderthal DNA survives in modern
humans; however, a single human has an average of around 2%
Neanderthal DNA overall with some countries and backgrounds having a
maximum of 3% per human."

Note the distinction between the total percent survivng in modern
humans as a whole and the amounts in a given individual. One might
regard this as a Neanderthal DNA survival strategy.

Ironically, it is Northern Europeans who tend to have more. So much
for White people even existing in the "not one drop" sense. And that's
ignoring Ghenghis Khan!

This all depends on the science working correctly. Currently, IIRC,
pretty much all modern groups are considered mixtures of earlier
groups, and some of those earlier groups haven't been found yet. IOW,
there are /no/ pure humans (if humans are defined as homo sapiens)/.
In this context, "working correctly" means that such groups actually
did exist, and are not merely figments of an overzealous analysis.

Of course, this science is relatively new, and changes can be expected
on a regular recurring basis.
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