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Posted on 05/03/2024 11:17:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
If you knew you would live to a ripe old age of 80-90 you would be relieved and take life easy as it goes.
If, on the other hand, you knew you would only live to be 20-30 or even 40, you would become hell-on-wheels uncontrollable and be a danger to yourself and others..................
Neanderthal DNA in human blood lines? Must have been some “overlap”
human ancestors entered the world in north-central Eurasia somewhere around 40,000 years ago.
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And had been around for some 260,000 years prior, according to mitochondrial DNA.
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make a CT model of a living person’s skull and see how close they come
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There are many of them - used all the time in murder cases where an unknown victim has to be reconstructed, very accurate.
I saw some show many years ago where they interviewed the person that did the first facial reconstruction of a so-called Neanderthal. He just asked them what do you want it to look it? So he made it cavemanish just like they wanted. I’m sure his check cleared.
That is sort of the story behind Isaac Asimov’s ‘Spacers’ in his novels and Foundation series.
The Spacers are Earth people who went out and colonized planets in 50 solar systems beyond ours.
Hundreds of years passed and their descendants eventually come back to Earth and they are not welcomed.
The Spacers live in bubble domed cities that filter out every germ and dust particle from the Earth’s atmosphere. They are extreme germaphobes. They do not mix with Earth people and vice-versa.
They live to be 300 years old and are disdainful of Earth people who only live to be 70-90 years.
They have spaceships and superior weapon technology but they are so protective of their own lives that they cannot fight an actual war and will withdraw from a battle, whereas Earthers will fight to the death to repel them.
They eventually die off because of infertility except for one planet, Solaria, that becomes a strange place that only has a very small population of asexual (clone) reproducing people and thousands of robots to take care of them. They will also kill anyone not from there who lands on their planet.
Nah. I’m going to stick with the Bible. Humans are humans, entirely unique beings. Not saying some of them didn’t have sex with primates, because even today some deviant humans have sex with animals, but no subspecies developed. And, of course, the dates are all wrong. Either carbon dating is not accurate, or there is the “gap theory”, with Satan trying to create humanity, and failing spectacularly. God knows; it’s above my pay grade. I can live just fine without knowing the answer to everything; I’ll find out the answers to all my questions when I get to Heaven.
I don’t care how hot she was, some guy sitting in a cave somewhere was sick of her s**t.
Which one is it?
Robert Heinlein’s first published story, Lifeline, deals with that very topic.
Laz, Laz - did you hit that?
I’d like to see a side view. It looks like there is little to no slope of the forehead and doesn’t seem to match the photo of the skull.
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No wonder they went extinct.
there are plenty of people around today with faces like that.
If that were the case, then why is it that most people out of africa have about 3 percent neanderthal genes
Can it be proven that they are actually Neanderthal genes or just genes that humans share with Neanderthals?
We share more DNA with mushrooms than any other plant. Did our ancient ancestors become amorous with a fun guy?
“Ping.”
THANK YOU for pinging Laz, it took 30 posts here! Are we slipping or what? Anyway, like the rest here, I impatiently wait for the call on this one. No way on the 2 uglies in the picture, but the Neanderthal...just maybe - that is why Laz is needed.
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