When Neanderthal meets a Trabant
We all know the Neanderthal got bad press for a long time and the debate still rages on—sure people would be out of a job otherwise, eh? It seems fitting to put the whole thing into context. Questions abound of course; such as did Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens really mate? It’s a provocative statement. Like saying Ferrari will resurrect British Leyland and plonk it along side as a premium brand. It’s enough to trigger mass insomnia.
I’ve known many Neanderthals in my career so we can’t disregard the possibility of cross breeding. It wouldn’t be the first time. Darwin experimented with pigeons and came up with some interesting results. The best of which can be seen today hanging around the boardrooms of several motoring goliaths.
Pigeons aside, I realised a Neanderthal would feel right at home mating in the back of a Trabant. A Trabant is essentially a bucket of spare washers left over from the cold war. Whilst 30,000 years ago the Neanderthal had its own cold war to deal with, the commies in more recent times managed (somehow) to engineer an ice age of their own in the guise of the P601. Indeed life in the inhospitable world of the Neanderthal was almost as harsh as life driving a Trabant in communist East Germany.
It handled like an iceberg and the bodywork had about the same resistance to the elements as rice crackers. Together, paradoxically perhaps, the Neanderthal and the Trabant claim their place in evolutionary history insofar as their environments never changed … until the collapse of the Berlin wall. Oh, and I’m sure the pigeons were there to see it happen.
I’ve known many Neanderthals in my career so we can’t disregard the possibility of cross breeding. It wouldn’t be the first time. Darwin experimented with pigeons and came up with some interesting results. The best of which can be seen today hanging around the boardrooms of several motoring goliaths.
Pigeons aside, I realised a Neanderthal would feel right at home mating in the back of a Trabant. A Trabant is essentially a bucket of spare washers left over from the cold war. Whilst 30,000 years ago the Neanderthal had its own cold war to deal with, the commies in more recent times managed (somehow) to engineer an ice age of their own in the guise of the P601. Indeed life in the inhospitable world of the Neanderthal was almost as harsh as life driving a Trabant in communist East Germany.
It handled like an iceberg and the bodywork had about the same resistance to the elements as rice crackers. Together, paradoxically perhaps, the Neanderthal and the Trabant claim their place in evolutionary history insofar as their environments never changed … until the collapse of the Berlin wall. Oh, and I’m sure the pigeons were there to see it happen.
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