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The Neanderthal Nose Enigma: Why So Big?
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| January 14, 2011
| Charles Q. Choi
Posted on 01/14/2011 4:16:53 PM PST by decimon
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:16:55 PM PST
by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv
Honkin’ big paradox ping.
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:17:57 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:18:22 PM PST
by
Cisco Nix
(Because the left is ugly and the right is beautiful.)
To: decimon
"why did they have such big schnozes?" Because they had big fingers and kleenex wouldn't be invented for another 300,000 years.......do the math.
To: Cisco Nix
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:20:59 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: decimon
“.....acting as flotation devices!”
wish I could find a pic of Helen Thomas.........
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:21:09 PM PST
by
EggsAckley
( There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply!)
To: decimon; JoeProBono
"The $64,000 question is what sinuses do - that is, what is their biological function. Scientists have been arguing over that for hundreds of years," researcher Todd Rae, a paleoanthropologist at Roehampton University in London, wrote in an e-mail. "There are dozens of suggestions for what they may do for the animals that have them, including adding resonance to the voice and acting as flotation devices!"
Ping!
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:22:30 PM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed, he's hated on seven continents")
To: EggsAckley
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:25:24 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: Natural Law
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:26:49 PM PST
by
visualops
(Proud Air Force Mom)
To: decimon
All the better to smell you with, my dear.
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:27:03 PM PST
by
Wissa
(Gone Galt)
To: decimon
The only reason that Neanderthal men had big noses is that Neanderthal women like ‘em big, and that’s the way they bred ‘em.
To: Natural Law
Because they had big fingers and kleenex wouldn’t be invented for another 300,000 years.......do the math
lol
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:28:37 PM PST
by
brooklin
To: decimon
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:30:58 PM PST
by
Figment
("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
To: decimon
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:32:51 PM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 724 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: decimon
I asked Charles Darwin this exact question before he died. Charlie said that they migrated from Africa, where big noses helped dissipate the heat, but in the colder European climate, those same noses became liabilities - which is why they went extinct. Who would have thought it was a nose job defect?
To: Figment
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:34:17 PM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 724 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: Alex Murphy
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:36:29 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: decimon
The Neanderthal Nose Enigma: Why So Big?
Maybe so they could sniff out the BBQ going on in their neighbor's cave.
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:38:25 PM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: decimon
Better to sniff out game with.
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:38:31 PM PST
by
dalereed
To: decimon
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posted on
01/14/2011 4:40:00 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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