Humanity's Strange Face

Science News Magazine ^ | 5-22-2004 | Bruce Bower

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Oase skull pong

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"Upon reaching the cavern in 2002, the investigators saw cave bear bones lying everywhere. The huge creatures may have hibernated there and died after awakening, perhaps lacking the energy to lumber to the surface."

? I can come up with a better story than that.

[JimSEA]

The idea of a sudden explosion of modernity some 40,000 years ago leaves a lot of questions in my mind. However, the European cave painting and associated artifacts certainly are testiment to a great golden age. Thought provoking article.

[gcruse]

Are we still thinking that the 'ginger gene' which brings red hair/freckles probably is a result of neanderthal/human interbreeding?

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3adc5573604d.htm

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"Are we still thinking that the 'ginger gene' which brings red hair/freckles probably is a result of neanderthal/human interbreeding?"

Yup. RedHeads are Neandethals

[RightWhale]

And so did I. I don't know who Hannity is, although I heard the name someplace.

[blam]

That theory previously received a boost with the discovery in Portugal of a 24,500-year-old skeleton that Trinkaus and Zilhao view as a prime example of interbreeding between modern H. sapiens and Neandertals (SN: 5/8/99, p. 295: http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc99/5_8_99/fob7.htm). The child's bones display a potpourri of traits from both species, in the researchers' view.

[gcruse]

You don't have to tell me. I married two of them. Prolly would again...

[blam]

"I married two of them."

LOL, I only married one...it lasted for nine months.

[gcruse]

Put her there, pal. My first marriage, to a redhead natch, lasted exactly nine months from "I do," until the divorce was final. LOL The second one made it eleven years.

[blam]

"Put her there, pal. My first marriage, to a redhead natch, lasted exactly nine months from "I do," until the divorce was final. "

That's exactly the story with mine...some called it a 'rebound.' My first and third lasted eight years each. Now, I just have the doggies. (And, one wonderful son, Dr blam)

[gcruse]

LOL Same here. One son married and gone, one dog, no worries. Enough was enough.

[rightofrush]

Charlie Brown syndrome?

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Charlie Brown syndrome?

[gcruse]

I have what I think is a genetic predisposition toward ladies with Irish features. Being red headed is ne plus ultra.

[Henchman]

But the Aboriginies in Austrailia arrived there 50000 plus years ago...they are modern. No Neanderthal traits there.

[blam]

"But the Aboriginies in Austrailia arrived there 50000 plus years ago...they are modern. No Neanderthal traits there."

It is complicated. (Mainly, there's a lot of 'stuff' we don't know)

Australian DNA Challenges Human Origins Theory

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The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve

Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]

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"Upon reaching the cavern in 2002, the investigators saw cave bear bones lying everywhere. The huge creatures may have hibernated there and died after awakening, perhaps lacking the energy to lumber to the surface." ? I can come up with a better story than that.

Yes me too! Neanderthals are the offspring between early Homo Sapiens males and lonely female cave bears!

Distressed about the lack of abillity to find honey in their weakly built offspring, the cave bears then died of maternal stress.