DNA analysis shakes up Neandertal theories

Binghamton.edu ^ | April 4, 2012 | Gail Glover

[SunkenCiv]

The writer has been trying harder, but has been really busy; less errors, but fewer time to work on spelling skills.

I’m surprised no one has commented (that I saw) about the completely correct spelling in the topic title, “Neandertal” (spelled as it’s pronounced, I guess the bullheaded incorrect limey “NeanderTHal” version is dying off).

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Thanks.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks. :’)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2869192/posts?page=21#21

[SunkenCiv]

Heh... but it looks like #6 got zapped, I never had the (whatkindof)pleasure to see it for myself, maybe it was in there. :’)

[null and void]

I guess the bullheaded incorrect limey “NeanderTHal” version is dying off).

It's German, and it is correct.

[SunkenCiv]

They were on chaise-lounges, sipping umbrella drinks, on the beach a few hundred feet below today’s sealevel. ;’)

[blueunicorn6]

My family has extremely tough skin. Geneticists have traced this to the fact that my ancestors were always thrown out on their asses by whoever came into the neighborhood. Not good fighters, but we can skid across gravel without getting hurt at all.

[Reeses]

Western European Neandertals went through a demographic crisis

World War -MCMLXXXVIII

[Verginius Rufus]

I believe we should spell "Neanderthal" the way the Neanderthalers themselves did.

When the first discovery was made on September 4, 1856, in the Neander Valley, the German spelling of "valley" was thal. Later a spelling reform changed the "th" to a "t" in that and other words, but the "Neanderthal" spelling had become well-known internationally by then.

There is an excellent recent book published by Routledge (ISBN 978-0-415-42520-9), entitled The Neanderthals, by Friedemann Schrenk and Stephanie Mu+ller (that's "u" umlaut), translated by Phyllis G. Jestice. The German version uses the spelling "Neandertal." The original was published in 2005 and the translation in 2009.

The Neander valley is named for a 17th-century theologian and hymn-writer named Joachim Neumann, who translated his name into Greek as "Neander" (from the Greek roots for "new" and "man").

[SunkenCiv]

LOL! We may be related then. ;’)

[TigersEye]

I’m surprised no one has commented (that I saw) about the completely correct spelling in the topic title, “Neandertal” (spelled as it’s pronounced, I guess the bullheaded incorrect limey “NeanderTHal” version is dying off).

I noticed that. I also noticed the idea that a colder climate is not conducive to life. What a novel concept! :-)

[colorado tanker]

Neanderthal leader Algore persuaded them to cut carbon emissions to lower the high temperatures of the last interglacial. There wasn't a long enough season for him to show off his fancy furs. Revenge was had on his family as the dwindling bands of Neanderthals blamed the Algoreans for the ensuing ice age. Unfortunately, one lone branch of the family survived . . . .