Neanderthals Wore Make-Up And Liked To Chat

New Scientist ^ | 3-27-2008 | Dan Jones

[Melinda in TN]

Are they saying that natural pale skinned redheads like me are mutants? Well!!

Seriously, is it really a gene mutation that causes pale skin and red hair? It happens in my family about every other generation. I was the lucky one this generation.

[ansel12]

"Duh! There were like, tons of way cool Neandertal Valley girls, hitting the cave malls to the max lookin’ for gnarly dudes, right?" ============================================================

[Little Bill]

Spelling, Gesklaven(?), German, reflects the Eastward expansion. I do think that the Byzantines gave us bugger through a long line of references that I don’t remember.

[aruanan]

Seriously, is it really a gene mutation that causes pale skin and red hair? It happens in my family about every other generation. I was the lucky one this generation.

Yes. But your family's not experiencing a mutation every other generation.

[Pharmboy]

(Pharmboy muttering to himself) “Where does he come up with this stuff??”

[CarrotAndStick]

Some of them are believed to have thrived to this day, in Russia:

[TexGuy]

Cool Uni-brow, Breshy-boy!

[Sacajaweau]

There's an obsession with neanderthals. There's tribes in Africa that live in the same way as way back then.

Man is an intelligent being.

If his primary needs are met...he goes no further.

It's kinda like doing the sign language things with babies. My son's wife did this with their first kid...And the kid is screwed up royally. He is unsocial and lacks initiative....almost altistic and responds only to his mother and father...

[Melinda in TN]

Yes. But your family's not experiencing a mutation every other generation.

Probably not but I have red hair, my grandmother had red hair, and my great-great grandmother had red hair. For some reason it only shows up every other generation. It seems kind of odd. That's as far back as I know of but I remember my grandmother saying that it has occurred every other generation way back through the family tree.

[CarrotAndStick]

Unibrow? What unibrow? I thought it was a bird-hit!

:^)

[Emmett McCarthy]

Even while they were watching Oprah?

[Little Bill]

I don't agree with the Primary needs thing, when the needs of the big guy is met civilization goes no further, a given.

If Joe and Joanna come up with something that can make them bucks that they can keep, they advance and knowledge advances. The big guy becomes irrelevant, live bravely and die nobly

I teach my Grandkids to read, and poison their minds with the founders.

[LiberConservative]

(grunt) Food!
(grunt) Lipstick!
(grunt) Geico!

[jammer]

You’re right. I might be more succinct and just say he’s masturbating in print.

[WorkingClassFilth]

He says that Neanderthals, who most likely had pale skin, used these dark pigments to mark their own as well as animal skins. And, since body art is a form of communication, this implies that the Neanderthals could speak, d'Errico says...

...and since they could speak, they had the potential to develop written communications. Having a body of litarary materials, they could have evolved critical analysis, debate and deconstruction. This would have resulted in the need for academies of higher learning and elite thought. This may have given genetic guidance to the evolutionary process and resulted in the state of advancement we see today at all levels of society.

Huh.

I guess the neanderthals were pretty primitive and ignorant at that.

[bkepley]

Could Neanderthals speak?

They still do.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992740/posts?#4

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Were they before or after Adam & Eve...??

[swampdweller]

Article is full of “most likely” “implies” “perhaps” This guy is full of himself and doesn’t know squat for sure.

Right on, right on, Doc. They find one thing and make a gigantic unprovable theory with it. But over time it'll be accepted as truth.

Here is my theory: The absurdity of this article implies that perhaps this guy is most likely full of it.

[swampdweller]

Captain Caveman was totally stunned when his cavegirl discovered make-up. The chatting thing didn't thrill him though.

[Mike Darancette]

No wonder they are extinct.