Posted on 11/08/2006 11:15:23 PM PST by FLOutdoorsman
No need to re-create the genome. The Neanderthals are alive and well, and are indeed thriving and walking right among us. I personally know a few, and met a bunch of them on various occasions, and I'm far from alone in that.
What a bunch of hooey. 6,000 years ago the Earth didn't even exist, never mind 35,000 years. Typical evolutionist mumbo jumbo.
They call it downs syndrome now.
Somewhere it was reported that they existed to at least 19,000 years ago, in a cave on Gibralter. Also, they actually mined TIN underground in Belgium, using antlers for scraping tools(fossils found therewith). On the Discovery Special it was opined that they just didn't reproduce as fast as homo sap(2% differential).
Many Ukrainian and black Russians still sport a uni-brow, are very hairy and fashion crude tools.
Ganesh particle BTTT.
That would only make sense to an evolutionist. They were too dumb to make shovels, so they used antlers to scrape cassiterite out of mines to toss in their smelters to make tin.
Considering Neanderthals were fully human, complete language is still unique among all physical creatures (so excluding angels) to humans.
..and they also could understand how to sign up for Geico insurance.
ROTFL! I needed that...now if you were serious, it would have been even more funny.
Yep.
They're creating a whole new minority class(and democrat voters)...
Yes, we know. And now they control the House AND the Senate.
Sorry. Thanks for the interesting post on something important other than the election. Please excuse my cynicism, I hope you'll understand.
"I'm telling you guys, Neanderthal Park is the future!"
Yes, it was a Scientific American article many years ago now : somewhere in Belgium or thereabouts they found both neanderthal bones and antler-tools in a tin mine, cassiterite, as you say, was what they were after for smelting. That in turn means that they weren't quite as dumb as they've often been portrayed. As to speech, the absense of the hypoloid throat bone is supposedly evidence that they couldn't speak like we do(spectrum of voice sounds), but look at the arabic languages : they communicate with hand/body gestures as much as with the spoken word.......Then look at the Basque language, unrelated to any other language(Lapp language too). Now if it's true that the last neanderthals died out in and around Gibraltar circa 19,000 years ago, could it be that spanish Basque is somehow a daughter language? This is speculative of course : homo sap has been traced to about 125,000 BC, to the original "eve". We even see the tabu volcano/nuclear winter in our "squeezed" mitochondrial DNA at 74,000 BC. So suppose that a DNA breakthrough occurred somewhere between 35,000 BC and 20,000 BC : homo sap and neanderthal COULD mate. Too late for the neanderthal genes to be spread throughout the entire homo sap population due mostly to "ogre" fears/cultural differences, like copulating with a monkey to homo sap, but a remnant population of mixed genes developed the Basque language as distinct from all other languages. Has anyone ever looked closely at Basque DNA?
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