They may well have been capable of speech (crows, African grey parrots, and Southern Grackles are all speech capable), but they were not related to us at all. Their DNA is halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee and there is no reason to believe that any other hominid ever had DNA closer to ours than that.
“They may well have been capable of speech (crows, African grey parrots, and Southern Grackles are all speech capable), but they were not related to us at all. Their DNA is halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee and there is no reason to believe that any other hominid ever had DNA closer to ours than that.”
Pure BS! Actual recreations have them looking like a mean looking version of us. Give him a haircut and a suit, and he’d take your job. Not only that, but it has already been shown that they interbred with us, leaving the vast majority of us with Neanderthal somewhere in our ancestry.
And for the record, individual Chimpanzees from different troops are far more different from EACH OTHER than we are from Neanderthals.
So says Danny Vendramini, a writer with whose credentials are hard for me to find after a a bit of searching. A bio pages says "Australian born, Danny Vendramini had successful careers as a theater and film director and scriptwriter before turning to evolutionary biology". Find me ANYBODY with serious background in the biological sciences who supports Vendramini's hypothesis, and maybe I'll pay attention.
Reconstructions by people with actual science backgrounds have Neanderthals looking not too different from us. Give one a shave, shower, and modern clothes and you would probably walk pass him on the street without thinking him that unusual.
Bigfoot? :-)
Keep saying it, MAYBE one day people will realize the truth.