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Neanderthals talked like us half a million years ago and could even have shaped today's language
Daily Mail ^ | 10 July 2013 | SARAH GRIFFITHS

Posted on 07/10/2013 9:30:34 AM PDT by Pharmboy

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To: Jack Hammer

I wonder what the first word was??? Or sentence??? “bring me a beer honey”....or “Nice tatas on that narnook”


21 posted on 07/10/2013 10:42:21 AM PDT by Youngman542012
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To: donmeaker
"Neandertals had larger brains than ‘modern’ man."

Proof of deevolution. Man isn't coming from the apes. He's going to them.

22 posted on 07/10/2013 10:42:30 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Pharmboy

We are Neanderthals.


23 posted on 07/10/2013 10:48:15 AM PDT by blam
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To: Pharmboy

speculation on speculation on speculation, not science


24 posted on 07/10/2013 10:55:32 AM PDT by Wuli (qu)
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To: Pharmboy

Only problem is the earth is only tens of thousands years old.


25 posted on 07/10/2013 10:56:21 AM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Pharmboy
Ah yes...”Stranger in a Strange Land.” One of my favorite books from high school days. It was the only thing that came to mind. Thanks!

Not one of my favorite Heinlein novels (I prefer the juveniles), but still better than 99.9% of what's written these days...

26 posted on 07/10/2013 11:00:54 AM PDT by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Pharmboy

The headline is a bit misleading; while there were humans with proto-Neanderthal traits as early as 600,000–350,000 years ago, Neanderthals as such didn’t exist until approximately 135,000 years ago.


27 posted on 07/10/2013 11:00:54 AM PDT by Kip Russell (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. ---Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Pharmboy

This is a very poorly written article. This article is very poorly written. Very poorly written is this article. Very poorly this article is written. Written very poorly, this article is.


28 posted on 07/10/2013 11:00:56 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Wuli

they even spoke cursive


29 posted on 07/10/2013 11:01:43 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Pharmboy

“I say old chap, you seem to have a piece os mastadon stuck in your teeth, by jove!”


30 posted on 07/10/2013 11:06:22 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Born to Conserve

It ain’t wrote right by the writer, right?


31 posted on 07/10/2013 11:07:57 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: GeronL

lol


32 posted on 07/10/2013 11:08:49 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Pharmboy

It seems to me that I knew this. Wouldn’t there be physical and brain changes that evolved along with growing language use? That takes a long time. As long as we’re speculating anyway.


33 posted on 07/10/2013 11:09:03 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: Rebelbase

She does NOT look like a Neanderthal or a cave...person.

More like Jabba’s sister.


34 posted on 07/10/2013 11:11:41 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Lancey Howard

I can only imagine what they would be saying????

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WBfnHvcQobM/Ttu0fjPQYlI/AAAAAAAAZfI/Wha4r76jNlM/s1600/welch-one-million-years.jpg


35 posted on 07/10/2013 11:15:46 AM PDT by scotts8826
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To: Pharmboy
Neanderthals talked like us half a million years ago and could even have shaped today's language

Yo true dat fo sho.

36 posted on 07/10/2013 11:19:14 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: blam

Well, 23andme says I am 2.7% Neanderthal, just above the 2.6% average for the group of northern Euros it has me in. And from the looks of their groupings, this does not mean Scandinavian, since I do not have that blood in me; what they seem to mean is not Italian, Spanish or Greek (I guess).


37 posted on 07/10/2013 12:44:43 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: Wuli

I agree, but it is interesting nonetheless, and allows for a very funny FR thread.


38 posted on 07/10/2013 12:46:01 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: from occupied ga

The funny thing is, Africans have no Neanderthal genes in them at all; only Euros and Asians; Asians have the most, up to 4%. There never were any Neanders in Africa.


39 posted on 07/10/2013 12:49:40 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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40 posted on 07/10/2013 1:54:36 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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