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Posted on 08/25/2014 7:28:24 AM PDT by fishtank
New Finds Reveal Fully-Human Neandertal
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
The case for Neandertals as more primitive members of an evolutionary continuum that spans from apes to modern man continues to weaken. Genetic and archaeological finds are completely reshaping modern concepts of Neandertal men and women.
Researchers interested in unraveling humanity's past recently sequenced a female Neandertal's ancient DNA and published their results in Nature.1 The research included sequences that closely matched: Neandertal, Denisovan, modern man, plus an unidentified variation of man. The study authors suspected that these different groups interbred. Just as prior studies showed, this one confirmed that similarities between Neandertal and other human DNA sequences place "Miss Neandertal" inside human kind.2
In the context of biblical history, ancient families founded tribes and nations soon after their dispersal from the Tower of Babel. It appears these ancient people showed much wider variation in genetic and physical differences than the more limited range found across today's human populations.3 If accurate, then we would fully expect Neandertal peoples to have been able to interbreed with other post-Babel peoples.
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I see these “fully human Neanderthals” all the time panhandling at intersections around the city.
Obviously they were fully human since they were able to mate with “humans” and bear fertile offspring. We’ve known this for decades.
They are debating whether to call it the Hillary or the Nancy
Neanderthals were superior to modern man. That’s why they were killed off. It’s happening again today.
I’ve first hand evidence of large slow moving humanoids with brain capacity not fully developed at a local Wal-Mart store but really didn’t know where to report it to. At first glance one might classify them as zombies because they move with no discerning direction or purpose. But maybe a university expert doing further analysis could clear this mystery up.
At this point what difference does it make?
“Superior to” in a moral sense?
Currently employed as a bank vice-president in the trust department.
Actually, Neanderthals has bigger brains than us. And they were slightly shorter. And their musculature was much denser than ours, which means they were much stronger, which means they were adapted for hunting, which means they probably moved incredibly quickly. Like someone mentioned above, they were better than humans at essentially everything. That’s why humans exterminated them. And it’s happening again.
Neanderthals are alive and well and living in Russia
There are other explanations besides your genocide theory. Probably what happened is they were out bred and absorbed into the larger Homo sapien population.
“they were better than humans at essentially everything.”
Except thinking (probably) and talking (maybe).
Something’s missing.
That would turn the whole “survival of the fittest” concept on its head — don’t you think?
Or running for elected office as DemocRATs
Cowboy Bob is right. No, not in a moral sense, but in a pragmatic one. Neanderthals were smarter than humans — not only did they have bigger brains, but they left behind better technology (for example, they made flaked spear heads out of obsidian; those things are so sharp you can shave with them). They were much stronger than humans, and had much better night vision — their eyes were easily 50% larger than ours and spaced farther apart. In fact, the area of the brain that was most noticeably larger was the occipital lobe, which controls spatiotemporal perception. So, you have a hominid with the best spears in the world, musculature to throw them farther than anyone else, with pinpoint precision, on a moonless night. Oh, and they lived in glacier-covered Ice Age Europe, which humans couldn’t last a day in without freezing to death.
So, yes. Superior.
The theory is that humans exterminated them through simple persistence and sheer numbers. The changing climate helped the humans too, to an extent.
It’s also possible that the Neanderthals adopted a religion that considered it blasphemous to fight back against the humans, even as the humans were killing them. Sounds familiar.
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