Bending The Branches (Archaeology - Neanderthals)

Archaeology Magazine ^ | 10-19-2006 | Erij Trinkaus

[blam]

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This is the cover of the current Archaeology Magazine. It has the image of the hybrid Neanderthal kid we've been posting around here for years.

[Republican Babe]

ping....

[Coyoteman]

Good stuff!

[blam]

The Neanderthal Theory

[layman]

The article is too long for me to read, but I enjoyed looking at the pictures .... they put me in the mood for Halloween.

[dangus]

All evolutionary advancements emerge from the "odd ones." We survived; they didn't. We're superiorly adapted.

[dangus]

Blue eyes... reddish-borwn hair... freckles... bushy eyebrows... My God, I'm a Neanderthal!

[SunkenCiv]

a tall glass of the usual, please:

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]

[SunkenCiv]

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[almcbean]

Miss West Virginia

[gcruse]

Anything that chips away at the notion of modern humanity as the sine qua non of existence gets my vote. Good article and much needed approach to human development.

[blam]

"Blue eyes... reddish-borwn hair... freckles... bushy eyebrows... My God, I'm a Neanderthal!"

Redheads 'Are Neanderthals'

[OSHA]

My God, I'm a Neanderthal!

Yep. Now get back in your cave and try to evolve quietly. :^)

[Salamander]

[blam]

Milford Wolpoff, in "Neandertals in our family tree":

"Is it intellectually dead ideas about Neandertals or ideas about intellectually dead Neandertals?"

[Pharmboy]

Was it my prominent brow ridges that got me pinged?

[:-D

[ValerieUSA]

Neanderthals have generally been seen as evolutionary outcasts, but through comparisons and analyses of unique and shared traits, published in the August issue of Current Anthropology, Trinkaus concludes that modern humans are morphologically more divergent from ancestral humans than Neanderthals. This leads to the question, then: Why are modern humans so different?

Maybe because we are not evolved or morphed, but created just as we are.

[dangus]

Gulp: Big nose... big face... receding chin... stocky build! If not for the fact that my limbs are kinda longish for a guy who's not that tall, I'd say the Neanderthal description fit me to a "T." (How many FReepers have been called "Neanderthals" regularly?)

[Bellflower]

Maybe because we are not evolved or morphed, but created just as we are.

And these so called "Neanderthals" are just the spawns of first fallen angels and then demons attempting to mate with humans to pollute our gene pool. The earth was full of deviants before the flood and demons tried it again in the Holy Land before the Israelites settled there. This was probably an attempt by Satan to keep them out of their land promised earlier by The LORD to Abraham and his descendants.