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Solving the Mysteries of Short-Legged Neandertals
Science News ^
| October19, 2011
| Johns Hopkins Center of Functional Anatomy and Evolution
Posted on 10/29/2011 2:43:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
This article makes them sound like dwarves out of a Tolkien book. Weren’t they more similar to the vikings?
To: SunkenCiv
This explains their extinction.
I postulate that one of their short legs was shorter than the other—from humping the hills.
When they came down to flatlands, they stumped around in a circle until they starved to death.
(I expect credit for this theory.)
To: bunkerhill7; SunkenCiv
I wonder if the Side Hill Wampus is related to the Vari-legged Jackalope of the Paleolithic Texas Hill Country. It resembled a large jackrabbit mated to an antelope.
The Jackalope had legs on one side that were longer than the legs on the other side. As a result, they could run up hills in a circular manner, leaving distinctive spiraling paths worn into the hills over time.
Alas, the Jackalope was destined for extinction. They were one of Nature’s experiments that failed the test of evolution because having once attained the crest of a hill due to the perfect conformation of its physical parts for that particular job, they could find no way to retreat down the hill and expired on the crest.
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10/29/2011 3:51:05 PM PDT
by
wildbill
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posted on
10/29/2011 3:55:46 PM PDT
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RedMDer
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To: SunkenCiv
I’m sorry but I couldn’t help it......
a short legged Neanderthal named nick
couldn’t help stepping on his prick
to save him this trouble
he bent it up double
and no longer fears it a lick
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10/29/2011 4:15:32 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 ..posted from the great river road)
To: heartwood
Your sisters were 5’12” and your horses were 14 hands 4 inches:)
To: SunkenCiv
I thought Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals had been proven to be species apart from man by DNA testing?
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10/29/2011 5:06:37 PM PDT
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runninglips
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To: SunkenCiv
Basket ball players spend lots of time on flat surfaces so their legs grew longer (and their pants grew shorter).
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10/29/2011 5:35:18 PM PDT
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count-your-change
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To: runninglips
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To: Domestic Church
They were a bit stockier than living folks are, had a bigger brain case, made their clothing, fished, hunted, cooked food, etc etc. :’)
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10/29/2011 6:26:55 PM PDT
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To: sodpoodle
You’ve touched it — the likelihood is, Neandertal females had babies with Cro-Magnon males, it probably wouldn’t have worked the other way.
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
63” tall, 32” inseam.
Ain’t got that problem.
:-P
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10/29/2011 8:05:57 PM PDT
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Salamander
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To: runninglips
"I thought Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals had been proven to be species apart from man by DNA testing?" Most recent testing show that European and most Asians are 2-4% Neanderthal DNA.
Africans have none.
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10/29/2011 9:16:07 PM PDT
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blam
To: Berlin_Freeper
Short-Legged Neandertals I think they're Neandersmalls
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To: Salamander
Sure, but you ambushed that dog! ;’)
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