Posted on 07/07/2010 7:19:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Remains of an early Neanderthal with a super strong arm suggest that Neanderthal fellows were heavily pumped up on male hormones, possessing a hormonal status unlike anything that exists in humans today... Neanderthal males probably evolved their ultra macho ways due to lifestyle, genes, climate and diet factors... Project leader Maria Mednikova told Discovery News that Neanderthal males hunted in the "extreme," helping to beef up one arm. "The common method for killing animals was direct contact with the victim," said Mednikova, a professor in the Institute of Archaeology at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Instead of shooting prey, such as mammoths, with a bow and arrow from a distance, Neanderthal males would engage in face-to-face contact, jabbing long, thick spears directly into the animal's flesh. Neanderthal females weren't delicate creatures either... Neanderthal males had Popeye-type right arms, while Neanderthal females had arms that were more evenly matched and not nearly as muscular. Mednikova and her team analyzed a fossil humerus (long bone that extends from the shoulder to the elbow) for what they believe was an Neanderthal male that might have lived around 100,000 years ago in what is now Khvalynsk, Russia... Mednikova and her colleagues explained that edible plants in colder regions were few and far between, and the vegetation period was short.
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Neanderthal is a myth, there is no such thing, sorry.
I think she means "prey."
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That is undoubtedly due to 1) some distortion of the image (i.e., an artifact of digital processing) and 2) the skeltons are not being viewed exactly front-on; rather, they are rotated slightly.
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Actually that is being challenged and it opens doors into racial differences that many would rather not enter and it's not what you think...in fact the opposite.
No... that’s the caption of the pic in the post above yours...
It is also believed that the strong arm evolved a necessity to drag the kicking and screaming female to the back of the cave.
It is also believed that the strong arm evolved a necessity to drag the kicking and screaming female to the back of the cave.
LOL! I’m sure the women weren’t much better.
which has absolutely no validity given the vast numbers of living beings who inhabited the earth...way back when....
This is why I hate National Geographic and the history channel.
but the gov of california looks like a neanderthal.
When I worked I took a bus to the subway and had plenty of time to study the occupants thereof, and I maintain that those Neanderthal genes got passed down to some of our present-day citizens. Occasionally I saw people who had a lot of those features.
Most likely the skeletons were fabricated from more than one body IMO.
Light skin is mostly a cosmetic trait selected for by some mothers favoring it in their children. It doesn’t seem likely that Neanderthals were that deep into cosmetic selections. Dark skinned Neanderthals must be politically incorrect to depict.
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