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HUMANS WOULD BEAT NEANDERTHALS IN MARATHON
Discovery News ^
| Jan 28, 2011
| Jennifer Viegas
Posted on 01/29/2011 4:56:25 AM PST by Pharmboy
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Uhhh....we had better weapons and they couldn't outrun us. AND we were smarter and could come up with better tactics. Just my opinion...I wasn't there.
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posted on
01/29/2011 4:56:29 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
To: blam; thefactor; SunkenCiv; ClearCase_guy
They could probably do more push-ups than we could, ping...
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posted on
01/29/2011 4:58:01 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
To: Pharmboy
That's so condescending.
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posted on
01/29/2011 5:01:57 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Yo-Yo
Nice one...but hey, we’re giving you guys the strength events...
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posted on
01/29/2011 5:03:08 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
To: Pharmboy
They can act in movies or play baseball. Just ask Hawthore James, from Speed, Seven, plus other films and Johnny Damon.
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posted on
01/29/2011 5:06:08 AM PST
by
edpc
(It's Kräusened)
To: Pharmboy
We could probably beat them at chess too........
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posted on
01/29/2011 5:07:28 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(The only thing Super Glue is good for is gluing your fingers together.....)
To: Pharmboy
The TSA would allow both of these guys onto their flight.
To: Pharmboy
Man, don’t let Obama hear about this. He will be demanding subsidies for Neanderthals....wait...too late...he already is.
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
01/29/2011 5:15:08 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: HighWheeler
The TSA is more homo erectus.... LOL
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posted on
01/29/2011 5:18:15 AM PST
by
Nat Turner
(I can see NOVEMBER from my house....)
To: Hot Tabasco
We could probably beat them at chess too........Probably not. Same brain size as infants. They had larger brain size as adults....
To: Pharmboy
We might have beat them in a foot race but if they ever got their paws around our pencil necks, our earthly races would be run......
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posted on
01/29/2011 5:20:37 AM PST
by
ArtDodger
(Reread Animal Farm (with your kids))
To: Pharmboy
There has long been speculation that Neanderthals were fully adapted to temperate latitude ice age Earth, even having a bony protrusion in their sinuses to help warm inhaled air. However, when the Earth warmed, these protrusions could very well have contributed to lethal chronic sinus infections.
Those who have had such infections, lasting six months or more, will testify as to their debilitating effects.
And just fleeing north would be no help, because there is a big difference between cold temperatures with a long growing season, in what are now the temperate latitudes, and the short growing seasons in the far north.
Periods of darkness lasted much longer back then, because there was far greater tilt to the Earth’s axis. Which explains why so few ice age creatures survived.
To: HighWheeler
The last flight I took the TSA guy said to me: “Turn your head and cough”.
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posted on
01/29/2011 5:27:36 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: Hot Tabasco
To: Pharmboy
It’s a good thing our ancestors could run fast. If the Neos ever got their hands on them, they would be toast.
To: Pharmboy
FYI> There never were any such creature as neanderthals, this is a fable , yes a myth, that the left wing neanderthals have created to deceive the mind of the foolish who refuse to open their minds to the fact that we were created by the Lord God of Israel.
The day will come when our descendants will mock such beliefs as this much as they mock those who believed the flat earth theory as true. And global warming and nanny state myths and fables will also be mocked.
Mark my words, men should stand on science and science destroys the theory of evolution, a fable of left wing secularists.
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posted on
01/29/2011 5:50:16 AM PST
by
kindred
(Come Lord Jesus, rule and reign over all thine enemies.)
To: Pharmboy
“We hypothesize that endurance running performance may have been reduced in Neanderthals because they lived in cold climates.”
Well what about all those that lived in the Middle East? Was it cold then? What about the sea level - hundreds of feet lower then today — where any living on the beach, so to speak?
hypothesis, spypothesis the learned types still haven’t a clue
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posted on
01/29/2011 5:54:05 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
There has long been speculation that Neanderthals were fully adapted to temperate latitude ice age Earth, even having a bony protrusion in their sinuses to help warm inhaled air. However, when the Earth warmed, these protrusions could very well have contributed to lethal chronic sinus infections. Good thing our Cro-Magnon ancestors invented the SUV to warm the earth.
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posted on
01/29/2011 5:55:07 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Washington is finally rid of the Kennedies. Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.)
To: freebilly
This is a common misconception of the Neanderthals...yes indeed they had bigger brains and cranial capacities, BUT, this was due to the larger parts of the brain needed to manage their larger muscle mass. Their cerebellum was significantly bigger, giving rise to their "occipital bun."
In no way were they nearly as smart as we...their frontal lobes were much smaller.
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posted on
01/29/2011 6:02:06 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
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