"I'll have the Duck L'Orange...."
Looks like my ex-wife’s family getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner.
Neanderthals could breed with homo sapiens, so they were the same general species.
The Jimmy Castor Bunch, Troglodyte song & vid comes to mind.
Earlier than that, and it gets a bit...fuzzier.
The lesson of the Neanderthals is that storytelling too frequently masquerades as settled science, and that worldview assumptions often are passed off as hard data. Science got Neanderthals wrong because too few scientists were interested in getting them right.
And remember, it wasn’t that long ago that entire groups of humans were portrayed as primitive and apelike because of similar Darwinian assumptions.
I have always disputed the Neanderthals as Humans theory.
You may believe whatever you like, but I believe I was Created by the Creator of all Creation. IMO, belief in Evolutionary Theory is unfortunate - why would anyone claim to have ancient primates in their family tree?
Ideas have consequences. Bad ideas have victims.
They still are. Look around, they are still here .
Piltdown Man says “hey, what about me?!”
The lesson of the Neanderthals is that storytelling too frequently masquerades as settled science,
...Yeah...don’t it?
...and they still vote Democrat.
Ethnic Europeans have on average 2.7% of their DNA traceable to the Neanderthals. Asians are a bit less but there are still detectable amounts and they range from 1-2% from what I’ve read. The Neanderthal DNA was particularly useful and is particularly concentrated in the immune system. That makes sense given they were in those colder climes for much longer and had had time to develop resistance to the diseases carried by the local flora and fauna while the later waves of humans coming out of Africa had not had time to develop resistance.
Congressman Al Green D-Texas
It is very interesting about the basque people and the possibility they have a plethora of Neanderthal genes...
If neanderthals are a separate species, so are East Asians.
And so on.
The author points to a time when understanding religion was a requirement for being a superior being.
That made me chuckle. Being able to “understand” what a group of old wise men want you to believe is pretty much the definition of a stupid mind.
Sasquatch is a human also, but you wouldn’t know it to look at her.
*ping*