Assuming the Garden of Eden was the ice age high arctic coastal green belt, see here Central parts of Taymyr Peninsula were free of ice - Scientific American and here Warm Arctic AND Glaciers At The Same Time? , I've been doing some thinking. If Shangri-La , heaven, the birth of new modern man and new modern woman was a REAL place it would still exist in the folk-memory of people to the present day. Did man evolve the shoulder joint and spear throwing ability in the high green arctic and then descend to dominate over the neanderthals and other humans? It would explain the last refuge of the neanderthals on the southern most tip of Spain Neanderthals' 'last rock refuge'
