Posted on 09/20/2019 11:41:54 AM PDT by RummyChick
Ear infections likely killed off the Neanderthals, according to scientists who claim to have cracked the mystery surrounding the species' extinction.
While antibiotics are taken for granted in the modern world, a lack of sophisticated medicine 40,000 years ago is believed to have seen the archaic species suffer from the common childhood illness and then perish.
Moreover, Neanderthals were more prone to contracting an ear infection as they had smaller ears, providing a tighter space for bacteria to become clogged up.
This is believed to have led to breathing and hearing problems and pneumonia.
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There are his 2 sons, and he may have samples at the VA hospital from his care by them. I have old hats and gloves, but I don’t think the regular public sites do that. Do they? I am curious as to what Neanderthal blood I may have. My molars are very large, my enamel and dentine very hard, and my upper lateral incisors are slightly shovel shaped.
There are his 2 sons, and he may have samples at the VA hospital from his care by them. I have old hats and gloves, but I don’t think the regular public sites do that. Do they? I am curious as to what Neanderthal blood I may have. My molars are very large, my enamel and dentine very hard, and my upper lateral incisors are slightly shovel shaped.
Today it seems as if my whole mouth is shovel shaped, which will come in handy tomorrow when I’m complaining that I can’t lose weight.
Get your DNA done (it’s a kit, you do it at home), and each of your sons, and there are multi-kit comparisons that are done on the site of the testing kit vendors, as well as a site like GEDmatch.
I suspect that T Rex did have a powerful nose, and the legs to travel long distances to scavange dead critters. In fact I suspect he may have been more scavanger than a hunter killer. Their brains may have been more primitive than ours, but they had been in the process of evolving for over 100 million years, so I suspect their nasal cavities were quite well developed.
So far as scientists earning money doing research. Without that research, museums would not have their interesting exhibits which children and parents enjoy so much. Why are scientists whose work entertains them of less value than the athletes whose sports work also entertains them while many athletes get far greater pay?
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