World - Our Relatives The Neanderthals Poem by Paul Warren

DNA technology makes our past come alive
Where old stories of our origins are only jive
It has shown that the mother of the world
Came from Central Africa as the DNA has held

And those who were born outside of Africa
Have some surprising finds in the world's agenda
Europeans have DNA that will demonstrate for us
At 1.5 to 2.1 percent of Neanderthal that makes a fuss

With Neanderthals and Homo-sapiens living together
In Northern Israel meant that they were very familiar
So as the years went on families mixed without favour
And so Neanderthal DNA can be a scientific savour

But Neanderthals in the end died out of the scene
And Homo-sapiens were on top so very clean
And humans went to Europe where skin went white
Due to a eating grains and for Vitamin D from sunlight.

© Paul Warren Poetry