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John Byrne
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Posted: 30 January 2026 at 9:30pm \| IP Logged \| 1	post reply

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That our cousins may have survived to as recently as 28,000 years ago sets me to thinking of an essay Isaac Asimov wrote several decades ago. In it he pondered the idea of Neanderthals surviving down to modern times. How would our society have been shaped by having among us intelligent beings who were human, but not us?

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Conrad Teves
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Posted: 30 January 2026 at 10:11pm \| IP Logged \| 2	post reply

We have a hard time tolerating other humans for cultural or meaningless racial differences. We've killed almost everything else that wasn't food or a pet and some of that food isn't doing so well. I can't expect the Neanderthals would have faired much better.

You'll forgive me, I have a low opinion of our species just now.

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Mark McKay
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I’ve got a little less than 2% Neanderthal DNA, so I’m about as close as you get. 🙂

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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 31 January 2026 at 2:31am \| IP Logged \| 4	post reply

Slaves.

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