Posted on 10/22/2023 10:17:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Excavation in the Gruta de Oliveira.Credit: João Zilhão
You’re busy today! 😊
The other GGG topics added since the previous digest ping, alpha sort:
Yeah, and I’m now going to take a nap. :^)
So that puts them at an average IQ of 80?
“Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half the people are stupider than that.” — George Carlin
I suspect they were smarter. And certainly tougher.
They were not, however, great at having babies.
They continuously elected ‘Rats to run their cities?
“Despite the excavations, the archaeologists were not able to determine how the Neanderthals started a fire...”
Rae Dawn Chong showed them how.
So that puts them at an average IQ of 80?
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hard to justify that as they had larger brains then we do.
I told you not to let your kids marry those homos. Now we are going to go extinct.
Homo Erectus was more intelligent than most the people I talk to daily...
.....Neanderthals were as intelligent as Homo sapiens.....
Yes! And they are among our ancestors!
Svante Pääbo is the one who first showed that, and he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2022.
Neanderthals may have been as intelligent as Homo sapiens, but they were far away from developing the technology and science that enabled Svante Pääbo. But so were Paleolithic-era Homo sapiens!
Great article.
My wife calls me a Neanderthal all the time.
Honey...! Come see this.
5.56mm
“Despite the excavations, the archaeologists were not able to determine how the Neanderthals started a fire...”
There are 54 ancient volcanoes in Spain...
They didnt even check for lava residue ?
morons...
My cat is smarter tnan these guys.
Neanderthals made tools, musical instruments and cosmetics. They buried their dead and had control of fire.
They were human.
You are born with all the concepts of knowledge. Need brings it out. Morality is different. People were cannibals...until someone said....that doesn’t seem right...and decided Angus tasted better.
Yes, and they're still doing it.
The Neandertals had a lot of time to figure out the making of fire. It’s not unlikely that their firemaking skills were passed down to all their descendants, which includes us.
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