Thursday, October 25, 2007

Neanderthals Had Red Hair

Or at least some of them did. Another product of on-going research on the Neanderthal genome.

4 comments:

Rebecca K. O'Connor said...

I resemble that remark!

Reid Farmer said...

Hehe! It was just the good looking Neanderthals that had red hair, Rebecca!

Chas S. Clifton said...

I seem to recall red-haired Neanderthals in Bjorn Kurten's 1980 novel Dance of the Tiger.

Anyone got a copy?

Steve Bodio said...

Kurten's Neanderthals were fair and his Cro- Magnons dark- skinned, but I don't recall red hair (his saber- tooths were black too). I have four Kurten titles but not that one.