Neanderthals Clever Enough To Make 'Superglue'

Ananova ^ | 0106-2002

[carpio]

BTTT

[SunkenCiv]

The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve

Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]

[SunkenCiv]

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[FreedomCalls]

Neanderthals- as I understand it- were Homo Sapiens- just a different race. While they had physical traits that are strikingly different from modern humans they are still genetically the same and could mate with modern man today.

No, they were Homo neanderthalensis, a different species, but the same genus. It might be confusing in the current-day humans Homo sapiens are the only members of the Homo genus. Other great apes are:

Chimpanzee - Pan troglodytes
Bonobo - Pan paniscus
Eastern Gorilla - Gorilla gorilla
Western Gorilla - Gorilla beringei
Bornean Orangutan - Pongo pygmaeus
Sumatran Orangutan - Pongo abelii

Here's a taxonomy tree.

[Tench_Coxe]

Did they find an inscription showing the real secret?:

[zeugma]

Blam,

 I'd like to know if you've come up with a good way to organize all this stuff, or if
 you search for stuff like that 'redheads are neanderthal' article from 2001 that you linked to?

[abner]

Cyanoacrylate??? Really? My interest is peaked.. .

[norton]

"So if we call RAT voters Neanderthals we are no longer insulting them???"

Go ahead, pi$$ off a neanderthal at your own risk.

[tomzz]

We have several kinds of intelligent creatures on this planet now, including parrots, dolphins, chimps, and gorillas. Koko, the first gorilla taught to sign, is said to have an IQ in the range of about 100, with an understood English vocabulary of several thousand words. All of that of course is very very far from us being related to any of those creatures, being descended from any of them via anyting resembling evolution, or anything like that at all. We are not related to apes or hominids in any way.

[Caipirabob]

Such potential here...

Welcome to "Cave Improvement" with your host, "Zug"

Hi everyone, on our last eposide, my lovely assistant "Mung" was eaten by a giant ice-weasel. So today we're going to build a rudimentary neolithic intruder alert system using coconuts, human hair and various bodily excretions...

[tomzz]

Neandertals had bone structures twice as large as sapiens meaning they could support massive musculature. That means they could have body slammed NFL linemen.

Average height for a neanderthal was about five feet and they did not have access to steroids or modern weight training facilities. Against a modern NFL lineman, they'd lose.

[R. Scott]

It had to be made at a precise temperature and means the race had considerable technical and manual skills in comparison to their dullard image.

The “dullard image” of Neanderthals was a very temporary image - except for Hollywood screenwriters.

[exnavy]

LOL As I read the article, the original glue comes to mind, hint: it is found within the mucous membranes of the human body.

[Dustbunny]

I just knew that they were as smart as us, just a little backward. LOL

[Old Student]

"I don't know what Neanderthal ladies looked like, but it probably would be more likely that Neandethal guys impregnated Cro-Magnon women than the other way around."

You've obviously never been around sailors on shore leave, or any other young GI's. Not all, but a substantial fraction have adopted the motto "Go Ugly Early."

[blam]

"Blam,"

"I'd like to know if you've come up with a good way to organize all this stuff, or if
you search for stuff like that 'redheads are neanderthal' article from 2001 that you linked to?"

Sunkenciv is the organizing king...I (and others) find it and post it, SunkenCiv does all the sorting, cataloging and filing...without him, we'd be nothing.

Now, I do bookmark some of my very favorites to my profile page and to see those, click on my name then click on links on my profile page.