There a few papers causing a lot of discussion among researchers on the question of whether (a) humans and Neanderthals interbreed or (b) did not interbreed but date back to a common ancestor long ago. What is also interesting is the role that peer review and the length it takes for scientific papers to get published. There are a variety of sources on this but this article highlights the role of peer review and publication lag; see: http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/08/mating-with-neanderthals-is-off-again-on-again/
In totally unrelated news, the Ars Technica website has an up to date history of computing from the Altair personal computer to smartphones with cool pictures of some old technology (why, they even mention the Timex Sinclair though they only show the Sinclair Spectrum computer); see: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/from-altair-to-ipad-35-years-of-personal-computer-market-share/ NOTE: I love it that at the end the article calls MS-DOS a know-off of the CP/M operating system. Maybe I'll dig out my old KayPro 4 out of storage and fire up Wordstar and SuperCalc and connect up somewhere with Mite and the 300 baud modem. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=19736 or send a blank email to leave-19736-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
