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Neanderthal Racism Continues
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Posted on 10/11/2017 7:47:17 AM PDT by fishtank

Neanderthal Racism Continues

October 11, 2017 | David F. Coppedge

The evidence shows that Neanderthals were fully human, having shared genetic information with us. Why, then, do Darwin Supremacists continue to treat them as “other” than human?

One clear case (among many) where paleoanthropologists have been totally wrong has been in the classification of Neanderthals as a separate species, Homo neanderthalensis. As pointed out before, this amounts to a case of historical racism. For years, there have been growing signs that these ancient humans were just as intelligent as modern humans. The clincher in the last few years, though, is that we all have Neanderthal genes in us. Clearly, any individual capable of interbreeding and carrying on fertile offspring over generations counts as a member of the same species.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: creation; neanderthal

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1 posted on 10/11/2017 7:47:17 AM PDT by fishtank
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To: fishtank

#NLM!


2 posted on 10/11/2017 7:49:04 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: fishtank

Neanderthals, the superhumans who were the progenitors of Vikings and Celts, should be respected.


3 posted on 10/11/2017 7:54:13 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: fishtank

4 posted on 10/11/2017 7:54:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: fishtank

The low percentage of Neanderthal genes in the modern population likely reflects the very low Neanderthal population relative to that of the newcomers. Interbreeding indicates same species. The whole range of Chihuahuas to Wolves represents one species. The “coyotes” I see where I work range from little fellows of maybe 25 pounds to a critter that is easily 80 pounds or more. In the East at least, there seems to be no fine between wolves and coyotes and coyotes have been making puppies with domestic dogs for a long time.


5 posted on 10/11/2017 7:57:35 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: fishtank
p07
6 posted on 10/11/2017 8:04:09 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: fishtank

I read something recently which suggested that Neanderthals may not have practiced the same mating ritual exclusion of family members that their modern human counterparts did, and that may have led to their demise.


7 posted on 10/11/2017 8:07:40 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: fishtank

Darwin was a racist.


8 posted on 10/11/2017 8:15:04 AM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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To: fishtank

Please read or view Danny Vendramini’s “Neanderthal’s Predation Theory.”


9 posted on 10/11/2017 8:15:25 AM PDT by mga60
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To: arthurus

The coyotes in the East are part red wolf. That’s why they are so large. I have seen 50-70 pound coyotes in my neighborhood.


10 posted on 10/11/2017 8:18:59 AM PDT by Tennessee Conservative
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To: Leep

Yep, I mean, the alternate title for “Origin of the Species” is “The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”.


11 posted on 10/11/2017 8:23:30 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Tennessee Conservative

In North Florida, at least, the mix is from red wolf,through coyotes through domestic dogs. It is obvious if one sees more than a couple of them in the almost-wild as around the power plant where I am a security guard, mostly at night when the canines venture onto the grounds to harass the deer that are all over the place. I have seen one that looked like classic coyote of maybe 45 pounds but with a mottled coat and ears that did not stand erect in the company of one that would be termed a wolf if a hunter saw it.


12 posted on 10/11/2017 8:28:39 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: fishtank

It sure does and groups like BLM insist on keeping it going.

Seems to me that a great many blacks do not want to let racism die.


13 posted on 10/11/2017 8:31:19 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: fishtank
The questions this raises are interesting and deal with both cultural and physical adaptation to a drastically changing environment. “The 2 million year melee—neanderthals vs. humans” in Physics dot Org explores the probable answer. Basically it argues that the Neanderthal was well adapted to the ice age conditions of Europe and lived in more isolated communities. When the great melting came, the Homo Saipins were better able to survive in an environment where connected cultures and the physical adaptations for running and hunting on a warming environment gave a reproductive advantage. The full article can be found here.
14 posted on 10/11/2017 9:05:02 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Architect of Paradise
It is believed that all human populations, except for those in Africa south of the Sahara, have some Neanderthal ancestry. So prejudice against people with Neanderthal ancestry could be construed as racist...except that black people can't be racist (just ask Al Sharpton).

Black Americans may have Neanderthal ancestry if any of their ancestors came from Europe or were in the Americas before 1492.

23andMe will tell you if you have any Neanderthal ancestry if you take their DNA test.

15 posted on 10/11/2017 9:09:10 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Snickering Hound
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16 posted on 10/11/2017 9:09:57 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: arthurus

I’m in S.E. TN near the Great Smoky Mountains, Cherokee National Forest, and other large game areas. Mostly the coyotes don’t bother much as long as they can find small game but they are scary big and brave. They are also more aggressive than pure coyote. Sometimes when they hunt they even howl like a wolf instead of yipping like a coyote. It’s kind of a mix.

My neighbor has a critter cam on her porch and they come up on that. At first she thought they were reddish colored German Shepherd’s and then realized they were Coy/Wolves. That’s what I call them.

I have three large dogs in a fenced yard outside and the coyotes come close but don’t bother them. All of my dogs are spayed and neutered so there isn’t much for them here. :-) I never leave my small house dogs outside after dark though, even inside the fence.


17 posted on 10/11/2017 9:46:31 AM PDT by Tennessee Conservative
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To: fishtank
from the article: "The evidence shows that Neanderthals were fully human, having shared genetic information with us.
Why, then, do Darwin Supremacists continue to treat them as “other” than human? "

Other than bashing alleged "Darwin Supremacists" (??) it's not at all clear what this article is trying to say.
The real issue is: where exactly, by definition, do we draw the lines separating different races (breeds/varieties) of the same sub-species, or different sub-species of the same species, or different species of the same biological genus, or different genera of the same biological family, etc.
Where we draw such lines matters a lot in saying whether populations like Neanderthals were a different race/breed of humans, homo sapiens-sapiens, or a different sub-species, homo-sapiens-Neanderthal of the human species, or a whole different species, homo-Neanderthal, of the homo genus.

The fact is that Neanderthals were not as closely related to us as we are to each other -- even the most distantly separated humans are more closely related to each other than to any Neanderthals.
That makes Neanderthals more than just another "race" (breed) of humans, they must be at least a sub-species and since they interbred with our ancestors, they cannot be more separated than a different species.

Where things stood until recent years: Neanderthals were considered at least a separate species, if not entirely different genus.
But since the DNA evidence has weighed in, they are now classified as only a different sub-species within humans: Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.

But how such changes justify the article's verbal assaults on "Darwin Supremacists" escapes me.

18 posted on 10/11/2017 3:11:45 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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