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Neanderthals 'Were Ahead Of Their Time'
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 6-15-2007
Posted on 06/14/2007 5:56:19 PM PDT by blam
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To: Renfield
I’ve always wondered how the cavemen could be reconciled on a time scale with Biblical teachings of Adam & Eve being the origination of humans?
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posted on
06/15/2007 4:22:49 AM PDT
by
newfreep
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: Michael A. Velli
“Lynndie England: the missing link between neanderthals and modern man?”
Ah, but, to my knowledge, she’s managed to crank out several (fatherless) babies... In my neighborhood, she would be considered a Darwinian success story.
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posted on
06/15/2007 5:29:15 AM PDT
by
Harrius Magnus
(Pucker up Mo, and your dhimmi Leftist freaks, here comes your Jizya!)
To: Blood of Tyrants
If that were true, whales would be the most intelligent creatures on earth. Whales brains have a very large task-specific portion of their brain, which appears devoted to sonar and associated spatial navigation. As I recall, Neanderthal's brain is enlarged most prominently in the areas associated with the visual cortex and navigation.
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posted on
06/15/2007 5:37:59 AM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Salamander
yet we have not a single clue what *they* are saying. Really? I knew a dozen or so sounds that each of my dogs would make, and what each meant. The problem was more that they would use the same "word" for a score of different things.
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posted on
06/15/2007 6:15:49 AM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: newfreep
Ive always wondered how the cavemen could be reconciled on a time scale with Biblical teachings of Adam & Eve being the origination of humans? Use the same definition of "human".
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posted on
06/15/2007 6:17:15 AM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: lepton
"As I recall, Neanderthal's brain is enlarged most prominently in the areas associated with the visual cortex and navigation. "The 'Hobbit' skull(s) found on the Indonesian island of Flores have a Broca's Area four times larger than Modern Humans. No-one knows why.
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posted on
06/15/2007 6:36:45 AM PDT
by
blam
To: StACase
It is a good joke, one I will lie about to people. Thanks for the ammo.
To: Dysart
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posted on
06/15/2007 6:55:26 AM PDT
by
Dysart
To: blam
Size alone does not dictate intelligence... The surface area of the brain certainly seems to have a large impact in general. But overall size by weight or by volume does not.
To: labette
"If Neanderthals were stronger and smarter than we, Why are we the survivors?"Alleys, late at night, one at a time.
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posted on
06/15/2007 8:37:22 AM PDT
by
norton
To: blam
We were all created. Many devolve.
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posted on
06/15/2007 8:39:39 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: chilepepper
"If that were true, whales would be the most intelligent creatures on earth.
perhaps they are..."'So long and thanks for all the plankton'?
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posted on
06/15/2007 8:43:04 AM PDT
by
norton
(I'm sorry it looks like one of those days...)
To: HamiltonJay
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posted on
06/15/2007 8:46:53 AM PDT
by
blam
To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Neanderthals were men. They may not have been as similar genetically as two people randomly selected from around the world today, but they were human.
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posted on
06/15/2007 8:53:29 AM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: labette
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posted on
06/15/2007 9:15:28 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated June 8, 2007.)
To: newfreep
There are cavemen still in existence today (in Malta). And probably a few eccentrics in other parts of the world.
As for Neanderthals, Creationist models vary. One idea is that modern day Europeans and people in the Levant and Central Asia (the places where Neanderthals used to live) are the descendants of Neanderthals.
Another is that they could have been people who actually obeyed the command to spread out after the Flood, and sort of became a subspecies of humans while the rest of humanity loitered in Mesopotamia, and after Babel, some of those Mesopotamians--the ancestors of modern mankind--wiped out the Neanderthals.
A rarer view is that Neanderthals were humans living in the antediluvian world; this hypothesis is chiefly for other advanced hominids such as Homo erectus and Homo habilis and similar homo species (as in Latin nomenclature)--less advanced homo species were probably just types of ape that have since gone extinct (and humans aren't apes).
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posted on
06/15/2007 9:34:10 AM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: blam
It isn’t the volume (at least that is the modern, general consensus).
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posted on
06/15/2007 9:35:30 AM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: blam
But Neanderthal man was not as slow-witted as he looked and was in reality as smart as we are, an archaeologist claims. For those of us who follow these stories, the above line has become a painful cliche. It is included in EVERY story about Neanderthals. No well-read person thinks they were dumb brutes any more, and hasn't for the past 30 years. Sheesh ...
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posted on
06/15/2007 11:12:10 AM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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