Neanderthal: New Images of an Ancient Enemy

This thing starts off with Danny Vendramini figuring out something which should have been figured out 100 years ago i.e.. that (other than for the larger brain area) a Neanderthal skull is a near perfect match for ape profiles and a very bad match for one of ours:

That is consistent with what we know about Neanderthal DNA i.e. that it's no closer to ours than to an ape's. The funny thing is that Vendramini did not tell his artist to produce the world's scariest monster, the basic order was to start with Neanderthal skulls and skeletal bones and try to flesh them out using the assumption that what you had was a bipedal, carniverous ape with an 8" fur coat (like every other ice-age animal) and the big eyes which Neanderthal eye sockets suggest for nocturnal hunting, and possibly a slightly mean look on the thing's face. The fact that what turns up looks as bad as it does to us is probably, as Vendramini suggests, due to past bad experiences with it, sort of like the instinctive human reaction to spiders and snakes:

The 8" fur coat also explains why no Neanderthal needles have ever been found...

Given the recent human population bottleneck, there is no way to believe that any modern human is related to this creature in any way other than for the possible re-use of low-level genetic components by an original designer or designers (the bottleneck says that if any human had any of this guy's genes we all would, not just Caucasians and East Asians), and likewise there is zero way to believe that any modern humans ever interbred with something like that. The image of the Neanderthal in popular culture and science turns out to be rubbish.

This thing was wiped out in some sort of a stone age world war and whoever wiped it out did the world a giant favor. Other than that, Danny Vendramini subscribes to a variant of the Gould/Eldredge flavor of evolutionism, nonetheless the scholarship involved in reconstructing what Neanderthals actually amounted to does not suffer from that.

In the three part image of Gorilla, Neanderthal skulls - the image with the gorilla head does NOT show a gorilla skull.

Danny Vendramini's site shows a Neanderthal skull inside a Chimpanzee's facial profile for illustration purposes to show the fit, which is substantially better than with a human profile and in fact "scientists" typically show Neanderthal and a few other hominid skulls looking down at their feet so as to appear not to have muzzles (they had em) while Vendramini's artist draws them the way they actually looked:

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That's without the ice-age fur coat for illustration purposes, courtesy www.themandus.org.

The muzzle and the lack of low-back arching to stand upright comfortably were real. The fur coat was real and in fact nothing would have lasted fifteen seconds in the European ice age without it. Every Neanderthal who ever lived past eight or ten (maturity for an ape) had some sort of a "tool kit" i.e. a little bag of scrapers, cutters, hand axes, spear points and the like; in all those millions of tools, nobody has ever found a needle although Cro Magnon needles are common. That's right, a creature with a 6 - 8 inch fur coat doesn't NEED needles or clothing.

That's right, between you and Danny Vendramini, the expert on Neanderthals is Danny Vendramini, and not you. You might want to check out the list of references for that book of Vendramini's, and see if you think you could add anything to it:

http://www.themandus.org/References-them+us.pdf

The ONLY part of Vendramini's thesis which doesn't really work is the part about SK hominids punk-eeking into Cro Magnons (modern humans). Evolution turns out to be a bunch of bullshit and Danny Vendramini is too smart to remain an evoloser much longer, and most likely won't.

I think you need to take a deep breath and stop shilling for Vendramini. A gorilla has a sagital crest. Trying to force a Neanderthal skull into a gorilla head is just plain wrong.

Just as easily put a mouse skull into a gorilla head and say mice are descended from apes. It is that ridiculous.

Vendramini is likely just setting up for some movie he is shilling to Hollywood.

Despite your total belief in Vendramini’s cockamamie “theory”, you are on the losing end of the discussion, as other posters have valiantly tried to point out.

Another guy who comes to the same conclusion I have wrt humans and hominids, i.e. that we're not related:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKu8Pff5X_Q

Pye and I both come the conclusion that modern humans were either put here recently or created here recently i.e. that there's no rational way to claim we are descended from hominids. Pye is a follower of Zechariah Sitchin who I don't have any real use for, but that's another story. The idea with this one is just to watch it until Pye starts talking about Sitchin and then turn it off.

You truly think flight feathers could “serve zero purpose” if they weren’t on wings? I find it surprising with how much certainty some of you write about a subject that’s so complex and largely theoretical. This mutation could have emerged first as an exaptation, and through sexual selection become more prominent in the population. Also, it stands to reason that “flight” feathers, before the era of flight, could have still served to provide increased running speed and jump height, assisting the avoidance predators as well as the capture of prey.

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