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Subject: Re: Could there be a Gnarly Man in current times?
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 16:19:19 -0400
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On 5/9/2024 2:45 PM, Mickmane wrote:
> On 09.05.24, Michael F. Stemper  <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 08/05/2024 06.20, Mickmane wrote:
>>> On 08.05.24, Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> [2] He also invented soup, by necessity, since his teeth wore out
>>>> and he hadn?t invented false teeth yet.
>>>
>>> With your description of the book (which I don't know), I'm now
>>> wondering how his teeth wore out, but not the rest of his body.
> 
>> Presumably, the friction involved in chewing would do the trick.
>> Unlike most of the body, teeth aren't self-repairing.
> 
> Hrmpf. Either it all repairs itself so he can live forever, or nothing
> does and it's some magic keeping him alive, including the teeth. :P
> 

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.

pt