Forget “The Bachelor” or “The Dating Game” there is a whole new game in town, or a really, really…really old one.

Studies of remains found across the world have given us reason to believe the while Cro-Magnons (modern humans) and Neanderthals populated parts of the planet side by side, they may also have. shall, we say, “Got Busy.” A few of the fringe have even postulated that our own dear Bigfoot my be the result of such a hybridization.

This excerpt from Archaeology.Org

Analysis of the skeletal remains of a four-year-old child buried in a Portuguese rock-shelter 25,000 to 24,500 years ago has yielded startling evidence that early modern humans and Neandertals may have interbred. While the boy’s prominent chin, tooth size, and pelvic measurements marked him as a Cro-Magnon, or fully modern human, his stocky body and short legs indicate Neandertal heritage, says Erik Trinkaus, a paleoanthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis. Interbreeding could answer the vexed question of the fate of the Neandertals, the last of whom disappeared from the Iberian Peninsula 28,000 years ago.

So that being said, apparently ancient humans could not keep it in their very proverbial pants. New DNA research indicates an anomaly existing only in parts of Africa. A genetic anomaly indicates a sub-species of Neanderthals that existed only in these regions, or at least they interbred in these regions and the genetic anomaly is still prevalent there.

From an article in the Washington Post that I found reprinted in the Seattle Times

The once controversial idea that humans mated with other species is now widely accepted among scientists. In fact, hominid hanky-panky seems to have occurred wherever humans met others who looked kind of like them.

The human family tree just got another — mysterious — branch, an African “sister species” to the heavy-browed Neanderthals that once roamed Europe.

There’s only one way the foreign DNA could have made it into modern human populations. “We’re talking about sex,” said Joshua Akey of the University of Washington, whose lab identified the foreign DNA in three groups of modern Africans.

So it occurred to me to put it to the readers, there is a web site called Hot or Not where viewers vote on the relative attractiveness of others with the desire to know if they are “Hot” who post their pictures there.

Let’s have a little survey:
These are reconstructions of Neanderthals based on skeletal remains
One for the Ladies…

and one for the men

What do you think? Hot or Not?

Let’s hear from the readers

Okay, maybe it isn’t too difficult to imagine after all

Any ladies seeking a more modern evaluation please send three appropriate pics to
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