dandna

hi! i found this forum through a web search on neanderthal. there are some informative posts here, thanks. A few threads back someone mentioned a psychologist called Stan Gooch, about his hybrid origin theory. I have a Stan Gooch dedicated site at http://www.the-guardians.co.uk. There is also a good post on wikipedia about the hybrid origin theory proposed by Mr.Gooch on their site. Although Gooch is not a genetics expert his work on psychology is truely groundbreaking. it lead a few academics to consider him a continuation of ideas of Freud and Jung, but his very early conclusion about mans dual nature -which many writers had observed, some societies as 'two hearts in one breast', others as yin/yang - convinced him the reasons must be deeply ingrained in the human psyche, so therefor genetically fixed, but opposing 'archetypes'. it was this research which led him to the only possible solution, that man as we know him is the result of a crossing over of two widely divergent species(both physically and culturally) of early man - neanderthal and cromagnon - and the rest is history. it would be interesting to see where this theory stands nearly 30 years after Stan first published it, a few pieces have been confirmed (Stans proposal neanderthal had red hair was confirmed in 2000 i think), but in terms of genetics and the fossil record there wasnt as much to go on back then as there is now. note: when discussing Neanderthal we must be aware that European, or 'classic' Neanderthal was a grossly mutated version of the original Middle-Eastern, and therefor African Neanderthal. Classic Neanderthal was an ultimately deleterious adaption evolution made for cold weather when forced by rapid ice-age onset, even though they flourished for many more years than we have now.