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Yep

Prometheus shaped man out of mud and Athena breathed life into him. 

Is that like Greeks invented sex and the Italians introduced woman?

How about thats going one step too far eh??

I tell you what, If the Greeks were indigenous Australians, how would this comment be viewed??

With a sense of humor?

Do you feel denigrated, or are you bitter because it means Italians have twice the sex?

No just not enjoying the double standards that seem to apply to taking the piss out of Greeks.

Sorry to disappoint Blues supporters with Greek heritage but that discovery is just one of many primate ancestors found in Africa, around the Mediterranean and in Asia.  It's a side branch or evolutionary dead end and is not ancestral to modern humans.

@LP let it go.
@Thry If that old gag caused any offence, I apologise sincerely and  unresevedly. I must say,  I have repeated that gag in front of my Greek mates and others countless times and I have never had an adverse reaction. That doesnt excuse any offence it may have caused, just putting it into context. Again, sorry.

Sorry to disappoint Blues supporters with Greek heritage but that discovery is just one of many primate ancestors found in Africa, around the Mediterranean and in Asia.  It's a side branch or evolutionary dead end and is not ancestral to modern humans.

No dissapointment DJC, that sample may or may not be the missing link, we seem to revise history over and over and over again, and realistically if anyone were to claim that human ancestry began anywhere, hasnt researched the globes history well enough to know that originally the world was one connected land mass.  You could find fossils of pre humans in Antarctica FFS.

I agree wholeheartedly with you about stopping casual racism Thry.

I took part in an archaeology department function at La Trobe last week and got to see incredibly accurate replicas of hominim/hominid skulls created by laser scanning and 3D printing; the application of cutting edge technology to incredibly ancient fossils 

I guess the most surprising discoveries in recent times is that other Homo species were around at the same time as modern humans and there was some cohabitation with the DNA of those species persisting in our DNA!