re: #594 Decatur Deb

My Human Paleontology stuff is decades old, but even then the “Lumpers” wing wanted to pull Cro-Magnon straight into Moderns. (The radicals also thought the Neanderthals would look good on an NFL line.)

Went to an exhibit once where the museum had taken one of the Neanderthal figures from the dioramas, dressed him in jeans, a jacket and a ball cap, and casually placed him by one of the walls, outside the display. He wasn’t that noticeable.