[SunkenCiv]

This is an image of the reconstruction of the thorax of Kebara 2. Scale = 5 cm. Credit: A. Gómez-Olivencia, A. Barash and E. Been [University of the Basque Country]

[Reily]

What gills?

[Inyo-Mono]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting. I pronounce it "Neanderthal, while now days most say "tal. Holdover from my anthropology classes in college in the early '70s.

[Theoria]

'diaphragm for breathing,'.

Great for hunting or singing.

[Redcitizen]

“New Virtual Reconstruction Of A Neanderthal Thorax Suggests Another Breathing Mechanism”

That’s also known as taking a breather.

[Zeneta]

“Modern humans rely on both the diaphragm and on the expansion of the rib cage. Here we can see how new technologies and methodologies in the study of fossil remains are providing new information to understand extinct species.”

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Conclusion.

Neanderthals where gay.

The White Male Christian Patriarchy and it’s Oppressive dogmas of social constraints have undermined our evolutionary desires to Swallow.

Who knew?

[PAR35]

Mount Carmel, Israel

"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."

[TigersEye]

"... suggest that Neanderthals relied more on the diaphragm for breathing," ...

They would have made great yogis.

[trebb]

Interesting - but a single example could, ironically, be of a deformed specimen.