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Are we ALL neanderthals?
The Daily Mail ^
| 15th September 2006
| MICHAEL HANLON
Posted on 09/20/2006 3:49:12 PM PDT by JTN
Their very name has become a byword for all that is brutish, stupid and crude. In the popular imagination, these were the violent, shambling, grunting apemen of legend. If you accuse someone of being a Neanderthal, you are not paying them a compliment.
But Neanderthal Man, who represented one of the oddest and most mysterious chapters in the history of humanity, has been undergoing something of a makeover in recent years.
We now know that these extinct cousins were not the brutes of legend but a sophisticated and intelligent species, capable of creating fire, fashioning delicate tools, burying their dead and perhaps even making music.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: crevolist; freckles; gingergene; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; mangosalsa; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals; redhair; redhead; redheads; roastduck
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posted on
09/20/2006 3:49:13 PM PDT
by
JTN
To: PatrickHenry
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posted on
09/20/2006 3:50:10 PM PDT
by
JTN
("I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.")
To: JTN
If you vote liberal the answer is No
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posted on
09/20/2006 3:50:53 PM PDT
by
misterrob
To: JTN
" . . . "
To: SunkenCiv; blam
To: blam
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posted on
09/20/2006 3:52:55 PM PDT
by
Slicksadick
(Go out on a limb........Its where the fruit is.)
To: JTN
Their very name has become a byword for all that is brutish, stupid and crude. Muslims?
To: martin_fierro
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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posted on
09/20/2006 3:53:04 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
09/20/2006 3:54:31 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
===> Placemarker <===
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posted on
09/20/2006 3:54:33 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
To: JTN
What's the point of the article. We have actual Neanderthal DNA, and we know the answer is no.
11
posted on
09/20/2006 3:55:20 PM PDT
by
js1138
(The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)
To: JTN
"Are we ALL neanderthals? . . ."
That is SO condescending!
To: JTN
13
posted on
09/20/2006 3:57:49 PM PDT
by
petercooper
(It could be worse, it could be raining.)
To: JTN
Yet it is likely that, with a wash, a shave and modern clothes, a Neanderthal could walk down the street today unnoticed. Or maybe even drive a cab without a wash and a shave (sorry to all you cab drivers).
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posted on
09/20/2006 3:59:05 PM PDT
by
trashcanbred
(Anti-social and anti-socialist)
To: JTN
No...but I will have the roast duck with mango salsa.
15
posted on
09/20/2006 3:59:40 PM PDT
by
AndrewB
To: JTN
.......If you accuse someone of being a Neanderthal, you are not paying them a compliment. Geeez!! And all this time I thought people were paying me a compliment!
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posted on
09/20/2006 4:00:16 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: Coyoteman
Thank you for that kind, gracious ===> Placemarker <===!! LOL
To: JTN
We now know that these extinct cousins were not the brutes of legend but a sophisticated and intelligent species, capable of creating fire, fashioning delicate tools, burying their dead and perhaps even making music.
To: blues_guitarist
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posted on
09/20/2006 4:03:20 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: martin_fierro
Just got back from California on the redeye this morning. Was in a restaurant in Palo Alto yesterday that actually had mango salsa on the menu.
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posted on
09/20/2006 4:03:45 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Every single day provides at least one new reason to hate the mainstream media...)
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