61.   Their brains were as large as those of modern humans, if not a little larger.

62.   Their superficial differences with modern humans would then have largely disappeared over a few generations, leaving Neanderthals indistinguishable from modern humans in the fossil record.

63.   There seems to have been one principal migration of modern humans out of Africa, but geneticists have picked up traces of at least one earlier exodus.

64.   They argue that primitives who hunted and gathered their food enjoyed freedoms that modern humans, slaves to technology and the capitalist treadmill, do not.

65.   They have argued that early modern humans all emerged from Africa and wiped out the Neanderthal population in Europe.

66.   They compared the diameter of a hole at the bottom of the skulls in modern humans, apes and several earlier species of the genus Homo.

67.   This has lent support to the idea that modern humans emerged gradually out of H. erectus in many parts of the world.

68.   They may have merged with modern humans, called Cro-Magnons, who appear to have arrived in Europe with a superior tool culture.

69.   This would not be true, however, for modern humans evolving in other parts of the world, such as Africa or eastern Asia.

70.   Three years ago, Templeton uncovered serious flaws in the statistical analysis underlying the mitochondrial Eve concept as evidence for a recent African origin of modern humans.