Neanderthal Extinction Pieced Together

Discovery Channel ^ | 1/27/04 | Jennifer Viegas

[lilylangtree]

Missing link is still missing.

[Seruzawa]

Add a few bone chips and some iffy climate data and Viola! They now know how neanderthal became extinct. Isn't it amazing how much they know? I'm so impressed.

Fantasy writers got nothing on anthropologists.

[glock rocks]

I thought Darryl Hannah resolved this issue.

[glock rocks]

Love yer tagline.

BTW, that Suzuki 11 is a rocket! Drove one years back. Black. Rocket.

[Insulsus]

Are they truly basing this on "iffy" climate data and "a few bone chips?" I thought scientists were supposed to adhere to a higher standard of experimentation.

[Forrestfire]

Are they series?

[LiteKeeper]

Discovery Channel

Rapidly becoming the Fantasy Channel.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

According to the "swimmer", Senator Kennedy, neanderthals are still living today.

He said that Bush has nominated some for superior court judges.

[RobRoy]

>>Are they truly basing this on "iffy" climate data and "a few bone chips?" I thought scientists were supposed to adhere to a higher standard of experimentation.<<

Yes, the "glue" that holds it all together is plaster of paris.

[Graymatter]

How do they explain the Neandertals in warmer climates? How did these people thrive for over a hundred thousand years and succumb to this one Ice Age?

I'd bet their heads got too big for their breeches. They had bigger brains than ours and might have started evolving bigger ones at a rate that cut into their birth rates. Mothers' bones don't change proportionately and maternal death rates went up.

As for food acquisition, it's kind of silly to think primitive humans depended on spears, just because we dig up more spearheads than traps and nets.

[balrog666]

Dance of the trolls ping.

[Blzbba]

"Missing link is still missing."


One word: Sasquatch.

[LibWhacker]

Just think, if they find your house a million years from now, they'll be able to infer the existence of saws and hammers even if they never find a single specimen. Yep, it's veeeeeeeeeeeeeeery impressive what the human brain can do if only it's put to use.

[pabianice]

35,000 years is a very slow "wipe". That's six times longer than all of recorded history.

[pabianice]

Neanderthals appear to have tolerated temperatures as cold as zero degrees Fahrenheit, but during the last ice age, winter temperatures dipped to well below freezing.

DUH! Freezing is 32 degrees F, not zero degrees F.

[RightWhale]

it's kind of silly to think primitive humans depended on spears

Clubs are even more severely underrated.

[Physicist]

Well.

[BenLurkin]

[ClearBlueSky]

Neanderthals-vs-'modern' man. Hmmm, sounds familiar!
Islam -vs-civilization?
We must make sure the end result is the same.