HUMANS WOULD BEAT NEANDERTHALS IN MARATHON

Discovery News ^ | Jan 28, 2011 | Jennifer Viegas

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Hilarious visual imagery re: those snake handlers. I have seen those guys on TV a few times and always got the feeling that their best qualities weren't amplified by TV.;-)

Where was the neighborhood (generally) into which they moved? I presume it wasn't the Upper West Side of Manhattan (though I can imagine a very interesting sitcom from such a clash of cultures).

[muawiyah]

Indianapolis East Side ~ otherwise so Lutheran and Catholic they had their own private school systems ~ but with snake handlers loose in the public schools.

They follow me around. When I first moved here a guy a few blocks away was arrested by the state police when several of his black mambas got loose. He'd been raising them and other types of cobras for use by both American and Indian origin snake handlers.

There's stuff going on you just don't know about...........

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Athenians did beat Persians in Marathon.

Well, not surprising. Persians are great sprinters but are really poor distance runners...particularly the long hairs.;-)

[SonOfDarkSkies]

When I was a kid growing up in the deep South, I was often depressed by the fact that life was so d@mn dull.

If only I had known then what I know now. Life is a lot of things, but dull it isn't!

Don't know if we had any snake handlers...but wouldn't be surprised.

[freebilly]

Read some more on the subject....

[Pharmboy]

If you think the guy on the left could compete in chess with the guy on the right, well...what can one say?

Clearly, it is you who has to read more. Start here, for instance. The following is from the reference cited:

The brains of adult Neanderthals were a different shape than ours — theirs were less globular and more elongated, which was the norm for more than 2 million years of human evolution, and is seen in chimpanzees as well.

"The interesting thing is within modern humans, the size of the brain correlates only very weakly with any measure of intelligence," he said. "It's more the internal structure of the brain that is important.

"And the Neanderthal, they were smart because they had a huge brain, but we think that internal structures must have been different because they grew differently, so we don't think the Neanderthal saw the world as we do."

[Abin Sur]

Uhhh....we had better weapons and they couldn't outrun us. AND we were smarter and could come up with better tactics.

One of my favorite bits from The Cartoon History of the Universe (highly recommended, BTW) shows early humans hunting down other hominids as they say, "We're smart! We're handsome! And we haven't invented morality yet!"

[freebilly]

Ignorance is bliss.

http://www.darwinismrefuted.com/origin_of_man_06.html

[freebilly]

ps, since I’m of Asian descent, I’m smarter than you are, for a variety of reasons, so you should continue this discussion with someone who’s intellectually your peer.... ;)

[Pharmboy]

Racial/Ethnic IQ curves

[The Comedian]

None of you monkeys can even teleport objects with you mind.

Savages.

Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.