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Subject: Re: Could there be a Gnarly Man in current times?
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Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> writes:

> I feel like throwing in that modern humans have some Neanderthal DNA.
> 23andMe tells me that I have more markers than 99% of their customer
> base, which probably puts me around 2% caveman.

YADATROT:

That always reminds of The Seeking Sword, a crude weapon somehow
imbued with discrimination between a racial/species distinction that
has become completely lost and merged in the modern genetic pool.  But
not for the sword or the entity/power that inhabits it and is,
millennia later, still bent on vengeance.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada