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Thanks Little Bill for the ping and decimon for the topic.
The "Neandertal ate too much meat" and "didn't eat fish" and "was a cannibal" garbage is, well, garbage, part of the just really bizarre racialism that has characterized a number of dip$h!t$ dating back to Virchow.
It used to be claimed that Neandertal couldn't talk, and reason after reason was concocted as to why that was. The obvious question to ask is, "how the hell do you know?" Instead, "well, they had a hyoid bone after all, now we have to figure out why they still couldn't talk." It reminds me of the old "You Can't Win With A Bigot" comic strip in Mad magazine.
The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve
in local libraries 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] To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.
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