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The Emerging Fate Of The Neanderthals
Eureka Alert ^ | 4-23-2007 | Erik Trinkaus

Posted on 04/24/2007 2:19:12 PM PDT by blam

Contact: Erik Trinkaus
trinkaus@wustl.edu
314-935-5207
Washington University in St. Louis

The emerging fate of the Neandertals

For nearly a century, anthropologists have been debating the relationship of Neandertals to modern humans. Central to the debate is whether Neandertals contributed directly or indirectly to the ancestry of the early modern humans that succeeded them.

As this discussion has intensified in the past decades, it has become the central research focus of Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Trinkaus has examined the earliest modern humans in Europe, including specimens in Romania, Czech Republic and France. Those specimens, in Trinkaus' opinion, have shown obvious Neandertal ancestry.

In an article appearing the week of April 23 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Trinkaus has brought together the available data, which shows that early modern humans did exhibit evidence of Neandertal traits.

"When you look at all of the well dated and diagnostic early modern European fossils, there is a persistent presence of anatomical features that were present among the Neandertals but absent from the earlier African modern humans," Trinkaus said. "Early modern Europeans reflect both their predominant African early modern human ancestry and a substantial degree of admixture between those early modern humans and the indigenous Neandertals."

This analysis, along with a number of considerations of human genetics, argues that the fate of the Neandertals was to be absorbed into modern human groups. Just as importantly, it also says that the behavioral difference between the groups were small. They saw each other as social equals.


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KEYWORDS: anthropology; fate; godsgravesglyphs; neandertal; neanderthals
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To: blam

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21 posted on 04/24/2007 5:23:51 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: blam
After the last century, I have no doubt about what befell the Neanderthals


22 posted on 04/24/2007 5:26:17 PM PDT by Jim Noble (We don't need to know what Cho thought. We need to know what Librescu thought.)
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To: Jim Noble

Ummmm, exactly what did you mean by that post?


23 posted on 04/24/2007 8:46:25 PM PDT by null and void (The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.)
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To: blam
I was beginning to be concerned that I'd never have the opportunity to reprise this again...
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]

24 posted on 04/24/2007 9:54:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Tuesday, April 24, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; 49th; ...
Thanks Blam.

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25 posted on 04/24/2007 9:55:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Tuesday, April 24, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: null and void

I think that what he meant was that the newcomers exterminated them. Gates to the Nazi concentration camps read “Work makes you free.”


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27 posted on 04/25/2007 5:43:38 AM PDT by Max in Utah (WWBFD? "What Would Ben Franklin Do?")
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28 posted on 04/25/2007 6:03:04 AM PDT by chesley ("Socialism" - The devil made them do it..)
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To: gleeaikin

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29 posted on 04/25/2007 7:32:24 AM PDT by null and void (The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.)
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30 posted on 04/25/2007 9:08:43 AM PDT by dsc (There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. Edmund Burke)
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To: blam

“Just as importantly, it also says that the behavioral difference between the groups were small. They saw each other as social equals.”

My, but crap like this makes my butt tired.

They saw each other as social equals, did they? Sure, either that or they ate the men and kept the women around to satisfy other appetites.

Has the level of intelligence in arts and parties departments sunk so low that they don’t even realize how stupid a statement like that makes them look?


31 posted on 04/25/2007 9:12:42 AM PDT by dsc (There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. Edmund Burke)
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To: blam
"When you look at all of the well dated and diagnostic early modern European fossils, there is a persistent presence of anatomical features that were present among the Neandertals but absent from the earlier African modern humans,"

I wish they'd give us examples!

32 posted on 04/25/2007 10:12:44 AM PDT by Jessarah
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