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Neanderthals Were Not Stupid, Just A Bit Anti-Social
Scotsman ^
| 4-10-2006
| Ian Johnson
Posted on 04/10/2006 2:45:19 PM PDT by blam
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To: KarlInOhio
I would think more along the lines of flags, uniforms, crowns, and parades.
That is the typical way of representing organized social groups, and rank within ythe group.
To: blam
The article sounds like a whole lot of baseless speculation.
I will do some of my own: after 400,000 years in a cold climate, I bet they had pelts like snow monkeys.
Were they the ogres (who lived under bridges) in norse mythology?
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posted on
04/10/2006 4:10:00 PM PDT
by
Hiddigeigei
(One doesn't have to regret the Enlightenment to be a conservative!)
To: KarlInOhio
Douglas Adams got it right. We are the descendents of the B arc.
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posted on
04/10/2006 4:12:30 PM PDT
by
js1138
(~()):~)>)
To: blam
I'm just a Lawyer... your science frightens and confuses me!!!
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posted on
04/10/2006 4:12:32 PM PDT
by
Chode
(1967 UN Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT. American Hedonist ©®)
To: blam
80 years ago in The Everlasting Man, G.K. Chesterton argued that the earliest men were people. Science appears to be catching up.
To: the invisib1e hand
See the link on post # 17.
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posted on
04/10/2006 4:18:12 PM PDT
by
Firefigher NC
(You light ‘em, we fight ‘em!)
To: ElkGroveDan
Best laugh I've had in quite some time.
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posted on
04/10/2006 4:55:35 PM PDT
by
StACase
To: blam
There's nothing in this article that I would particularly argue with but, it's what they leave out that concerns me. Neanderthals had established themselves in Eurasia during a time when weather was tolerable. Then they suffered severely through an extended multimillennial period of severe glaciation while anatomically modern humans thrived on the beaches of India and Arabia. When the ice started thawing, humans (or CroMangons) followed the melted glacier rivers inland and if they found any surviving Neanderthals at all, their populations were decimated and sub-isolated into small genetically inbred pockets.
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posted on
04/10/2006 5:33:53 PM PDT
by
shuckmaster
(An oak tree is an acorns way of making more acorns)
To: the invisib1e hand
The premise is that Gieco online is so easy, even a caveman can do it. So they make that statement only to discover that cavemen still exist and they found the add offensive.
Do watch the commercial linked in post 17. It's hilarious.
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posted on
04/10/2006 5:56:07 PM PDT
by
CougarGA7
(There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
To: blam
Neanderthals were not stupid, just a bit anti-socialJust my kind of proto-human.
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posted on
04/10/2006 6:00:39 PM PDT
by
Pelham
("Borders? We don' need no stinking borders!")
To: OB1kNOb
That guy reminds me of Billy Bob Thorton, only more hairy.
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posted on
04/10/2006 6:01:08 PM PDT
by
Conservative Texan Mom
(Some people say I'm stubborn, when it's usually just that I'm right.)
To: cll
"And I don't have much of an appetite".
hands back menu, glares across the table
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posted on
04/10/2006 6:02:32 PM PDT
by
Pelham
("Borders? We don' need no stinking borders!")
To: FreedomFarmer
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posted on
04/10/2006 6:10:18 PM PDT
by
Pelham
("Borders? We don' need no stinking borders!")
To: Neanderthal
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posted on
04/10/2006 6:16:01 PM PDT
by
Pelham
("Borders? We don' need no stinking borders!")
To: Neanderthal
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posted on
04/10/2006 6:49:35 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle)
To: blam
The theory does sound logical.Who knows?
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posted on
04/10/2006 8:28:07 PM PDT
by
Thombo2
To: blam
I thought the article was well written until
"Modern humans were obsessed with this. They were spending a lot of time and energy on how they looked. They cared more about how they looked and were more style conscious."
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posted on
04/10/2006 8:47:36 PM PDT
by
Dustbunny
(The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Im not sure I like the way you said that. :)
My shadow cloak...Now thats a statement by the fashionably clueless...
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posted on
04/10/2006 10:52:47 PM PDT
by
gnarledmaw
(I traded freedom for security and all I got were these damned shackles.)
To: Tijeras_Slim
So, is evolution just a vicious cycle?
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posted on
04/11/2006 5:15:30 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Rage is the fuel that powers the islamic machine)
To: Hegemony Cricket
So, is evolution just a vicious cycle? It did eventually produce the Indian.
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