To: SunkenCiv
Birthing children was easier for the shorter compact Neanderthal females. Breech births (legs first) were also more easily accommodated and if childbirth came while standing or walking - the baby didn’t have so far to fall.
20 posted on
10/29/2011 3:48:29 PM PDT by
sodpoodle
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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.
34 posted on
10/29/2011 6:27:58 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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