Told Ya So!

Fiorella never bought into the idea that Homo Sapiens killed off the Neanderthals.  Instead she theorized they died off because of problems with crossbreeding, that the maturity or birthweight of the mixed-breed babies killed off both the mother and the child--or something like that. It turns out Fio was wrong in the particulars, but, according to the latest DNA studies, was headed in the right directions: a Harvard Medical School report suggests that the male offspring of a Neanderthal-Homo Sapiens had a reduced fertility rate.  Get enough of that going, and--well--nothing gets going.

Any other scientific inquiries you'd like Fio to ponder on?

Fio Told You So

Aha!  Another popular theory that Fiorella thought was wacko has bit the dust--the right and left brain thing.  Fio kept her mouth shut, but she subscribed to that uh--lame-brained--theory as much as she believed that Neanderthals and homo sapiens never interbred or that, as was gospel in her schooldays, the matching shorelines of the New World and the Old were mere coincidence.

And she'll now come out of the closet and also say she doesn't believe there is intelligent life on other planets.