Posted on 06/10/2023 3:34:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The birch tar used by Neanderthals predates any known adaptation by modern humans by 100,000 years.The humans outsourced it to China, so it took them a few extra years to figure out the assembly manual...
No, much of the time it is the other way around.
Well I wouldn’t assume that, they had a larger brain and
Fact is non Africans have between 1-4% neanderthal DNA (https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-and-neanderthals#:~:text=Neanderthals%20are%20known%20to%20contribute,et%20al.%2C%202015).) and as a race those of black African decent average lower on IQ test than other race.
It could be conjectured that the Neanderthal DNA of other races may actually have increased their intelligence
That replacement theory went into the dust the dustbin of history when the DNA of Neanderthals was sequenced-Asians and Caucasians-and people who are a mix of the 3 races, which most of us are-have Neanderthal DNA-between 1 and 4%-only Black Africans do not have any, unless they are mixed with one of the other 2 races-so Neanderthals and modern humans bred a lot outside of Africa-probably on trading trips, etc-so they are us-it would appear that there hasn’t been anything like a “pure race” on this planet for a very, very long time-and it is a good thing, I think...
This is really cool. I’m surprised glue making goes back so far. I was also surprised that compound bows date back pretty far as well.
I think they were just burning some birch one day and notice a sticky substance afterward and went ‘Aha’ or ‘Eureka!’ or ‘Watson, come here!’
I wasn’t suggesting there wasn’t any intermixing. Probably none of the hominid branches were ever ‘pure’. I’ve read about the DNA in genomes. But I would suggest that the intermixing was less common than the competition and extinguishing. I don’t think homo sapiens (not saying they were pure homo sapiens) just out lasted them in environmental competition. I believe they warred with them at times, particularly when resources were scarce.
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