Neanderthal Theory

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I see a Neanderthal* when I look at my father and when I look at myself.

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* The current archetype of Neanderthal is more beautiful than in the past.

I believe that people are getting contentious over the idea of "throwbacks," in spite of suggestions that both branches were sophisticated and existed contemporaneously.

Neanderthals range from 1200-1750cc, but I did get Cro-Magnon mixed up with AMH. Herpderp.

LINK: BACARDI, Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals
At the dawn of humanity there were Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals. Neanderthals had bigger brains, better tools, better hair but Homo Sapiens had one advantage: they communicated in more than 140 characters, they hung out, they danced together, shared stories, told each other not to eat poisonous berries, they made friends so they flourished through love, compassion and other themes found in chick literature. They became HUMAN.

So let's fight what keeps us apart. Fight the lazy excuses, the status updates, the little white headphones, fight that damn clock because WE ARE ALL MEANT TO BE TOGETHER.

This Friday COME TOGETHER HUMANS over a BACARDI MOJITO and the special sound of NEBAT DRUMS.

http://www.nouvelles.umontreal.ca/reche ... -nous.html

Not related to autism, and it's in french, but if you can read it, it does confirm that there are genetic traces of neanderthal within modern humans, mostly from chromosome X. It apparently excludes people from Africa descent, and people from Asian descents apparently had an equivalent, the man of Denisova which comes Melanasia (sorry for the odd translation, please correct me if i'm wrong).

Last I heard, respectable anthropologists were saying that Neanderthal were Homo Sapiens, not to mention fully human themselves, and we do have some skeletons of intermediate forms, probably "half-breeds" from mostly the Middle East. Jean Auel did her homework before she wrote her fiction. I haven't studied Anthropology texts since the DNA work started ("The Double Helix" had been published), but you can still tell a lot from skeletons, though little or nothing about behavior.

As for theory and evidence, hypothesis comes before evidence: when you have a hypothesis that seems plausible, you design experiments that might or might not confirm it. Those are the evidence. When you have a whole pile of experiments that tend to confirm the hypothesis, and none that flatly contradict it, THEN you have a theory. "Faith" in theories or anything else has no place in the Scientific Method.

Neandertal was living in very small tribes up to 10 individuals. Therefore they didn't develop social skills.

Neanterdal lived during the ice age in extrem survival conditions. Survival was based on extremly accurate observation of the environment (to see hints left by preys for exemple)

How to explain that european have light skin, even those living in sunny countries like Italy, without the nerdetal theory?

How to explain the big Supraorbital foramen of europeans without the neaderthal theory?

I might be a pseudoscience, but keep in mind that as much BS has emerged from science than from pseudoscience.

3 years ago, the assunption that neanderthal and cro-magnon mixed was eccentric, now there is no doubt about it.

Wait a minute...haven't we gone forward and not backward? I thought science and technology has increased life expectancy and made peopl healthier. It seems like our species has yet to reach it's prime.

Just because we are smaller than elephants doesn't mean we have peaked.

According to the link Aghogday provided, humans are past their peak because our heads have shrunk over the years but could ancient man score 1550 out of 1600 on the SAT? Most likely, no. So why is it humanity has peaked just because brains have gotten smaller?

And somehow urbanization has made our species worse? Sounds like a statement an anthropologist would come up with. However, statistics suggest the opposite to be true. Urbanization has led to better quality of life for the masses.