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Neanderthals Clever Enough To Make 'Superglue'
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| 0106-2002
Posted on 01/06/2002 7:24:03 AM PST by blam
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To: RikaStrom;
Hmmm, whodathunkit? Caveman with adhesive personalities. I think this is not a suprise to certain freeperettes ;-)
To: blam
One theory why modern humans, especially Europeans, Caucasians, etc., have problems with wisdom teeth is that we have inherited the small jaws of non-Neanderthals, but the numerous teeth which were able to fit in larger Neanderthal jaws.
That's one theory anyway.
I have known people who did not have wisdom teeth: their teeth fit perfectly in their jaws, no need for extractions. I have also known people who not only had to have all four wisdom teeth removed, but who also had an extra set of four wisdom teeth behind those which had to be removed, and in one case, a third upper pair of half-formed wisdom teeth which the dentists did not touch because they were too close to the sinuses.
Tracing DNA material down the female line does not necessarily prove anything definitively, contrary to what scientific spin doctors tell you. The bulk of the population of Europe, for instance, can be traced directly back to a small number of female ancestors, according to some testing done recently, but that does not mean that only those limited number of female ancestors were the only female ancestors of today's population, since indirect female inheritance is not studied; other females with Neanderthal inheritance may have existed, who did not leave direct ancestors of their own, but who might have introduced Neanderthal genes into the non-Neanderthal population. In other words, it is not necessary to speculate exclusively about Neanderthal men impregnating non-Neanderthal woman, when the reverse could also have happened just as often; even if these Neanderthal women do not have direct female ancestors in today's population, they could have passed along, indirectly, some of their genetic inheritence to non-Neanderthal women who did, eventually, pass along these genes to today's populations.
Also, we still don't know a lot about DNA, and there is a good chance a lot gets passed along which cannot be traced with our current technology and current limited understanding of DNA.
Well, that's my take; others much more knowledgeable about DNA can debate this point.
The important point for me here is there is more indication that the neanderthals were not stupid; the idea they did not have a spoken language, for instance, will have to be dropped: you need a language to pass along the kind of knowledge to make these glues (not to mention the other evidence for organization requiring language which is already well known). The association of stupidity and primitiveness with neanderthals is a result of an unfortunate misunderstanding of the original fossils, which were misshapen.
To: Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy
Thanks. I agree 100% with all that you said in your post.
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posted on
01/06/2002 5:14:39 PM PST
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blam
To: blam
Very interesting about those teeth. I know a gal whose whole family is like that. If they have to have one pulled, the one behind it slips right into place.
To: JudyB1938
"Very interesting about those teeth. I know a gal whose whole family is like that. If they have to have one pulled, the one behind it slips right into place." Lol. I need teeth like that. Do the people in this family have big heads? Are they big and/or tall?
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posted on
01/07/2002 9:29:53 AM PST
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blam
To: farmfriend
Please put in the GGG files, Thanks
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posted on
12/02/2003 3:10:04 PM PST
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blam
To: blam
"Researchers say Neanderthals had considerable technical and intellectual skills and were as ingenious as modern humans."
I knew Ted Kennedy was actually just trying to give a compliment to the justice nominees ....
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posted on
12/02/2003 3:14:43 PM PST
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cinFLA
To: cinFLA
The Neanderthals had bigger brains than modern humans. Hmmmm
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posted on
12/02/2003 3:21:52 PM PST
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blam
To: blam
blam,
I am amazed at how you find all this fascinating material.
So...
Neanderthals buried their dead with flowers?
Made detailed or intricate tools?
Used skins and fur of animals for clothing in very cold climates?
Made glue?
But aren't they thought to have lacked the capacity for speech as we know it?
And how do we think this sophisticated information was conveyed and made part of the culture?
To: blam
I think the Neanderthals were simply long lived patriarchs a la some of the multi-centenarians described in the Bible.
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12/02/2003 3:31:55 PM PST
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fishtank
To: edwin hubble
aren't they thought to have lacked the capacity for speech as we know it? The men were silent, as befits someone trying to sneak up on large game animals and bash them with rocks. The women, though, mainly sat around the cook fire cooking and gossiping endlessly about the men.
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12/02/2003 3:34:56 PM PST
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RightWhale
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To: blam; *Gods, Graves, Glyphs; abner; Alas Babylon!; Andyman; annyokie; bd476; BiffWondercat; ...
Gods, Graves, Glyphs List for articles regarding early civilizations , life of all forms, - dinosaurs - etc.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this ping list.
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12/02/2003 3:37:00 PM PST
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farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: NeonKnight; Burkeman1; Lady Composer
There are many people with strong Neanderthal traits. I had a friend who once managed to Superglue one of her fingers to her teeth! She says she thinks twice about using it ever again :-).
To: GreenHornet
Not only were Neanderthals the first to make "Superglue", but there is evidence to suggest that they developed an early version of the "Veg-A-Matic", enabling them to make delicious julian fries in seconds!Buy a Veg-o-matic II!
To: blam
I have always been under the impression that "Neanderthals" were basically Homo Sapiens and not genetically any different from say a modern white man is from a modern black man? Am I wrong is this assumption?
To: PatrickHenry; VadeRetro; Piltdown_Woman; RadioAstronomer
Ping.
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12/02/2003 3:50:01 PM PST
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Junior
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
Thanks for the ping. Love these type of threads.
To: Burkeman1
The evidence so far is that Neanderthals were a different species and probably could not mate with Homo Sapiens.
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12/02/2003 3:51:20 PM PST
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Junior
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To: goodnesswins
To: Junior
Interesting. I had learned mostly about this stuff in high school and college when the thinking was that Neanderthals were basically the earliest Homo Sapiens and not a seperate species. Science advances . . .
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