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Neanderthals Take Out Their Small Blades
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| 5-16-2006
| Bruce Bower
Posted on 05/16/2006 12:51:33 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
We Are Neanderthals. I was working in a retail store 25 years ago in the LA area where I saw the ugliest woman and her son. They were short in stature, massive hands, huge foreheads, giant jaws, hair everywhere. At the time I told myself, surely this is what Neanderthals looked like.
When I see people like that I am convinced that there definitely are Neanderthal genes on our population.
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posted on
05/16/2006 1:23:39 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
To: Ditto
Was it the "erectus" or the "homo" part that caused her to leave?Let's see how this can be said in a respectable and scientific manner.
The "erectus" and the "homo" became dependant on one another and she made the other guy move out first.
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posted on
05/16/2006 1:24:01 PM PDT
by
capt. norm
(W.C. Fields: "Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.")
To: blam
We Are Neanderthals. Early Basques?
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posted on
05/16/2006 1:35:45 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Proud soldier in the American Army of Occupation..)
To: MeanWestTexan
The blades were for spreading the mango salsa, of course.Every time I see that commercial I start thinking about that roast duck and drooling.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
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posted on
05/16/2006 1:43:03 PM PDT
by
capt. norm
(W.C. Fields: "Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.")
To: capt. norm
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? HR holds nose and runs screaming into the street....
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posted on
05/16/2006 1:45:58 PM PDT
by
hispanarepublicana
(Don't fall for the soft bigotry of assuming all Hispanics are pro-amnesty. www.dontspeakforme.org)
To: ElkGroveDan
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posted on
05/16/2006 1:57:43 PM PDT
by
knews_hound
(Driving Liberals nuts since 1975 !)
To: Red Badger
Women Neanderthals shaved their legs. I think that puts them ahead of Hillary...from what I've read.
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posted on
05/16/2006 2:00:55 PM PDT
by
capt. norm
(W.C. Fields: "Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.")
To: blam
They just better not try to carry them onto an airplane.
To: ElkGroveDan
who u calling ugly?
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posted on
05/16/2006 2:04:36 PM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
To: blam
I'm just glad the last word in the headline was 'Blades'.
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posted on
05/16/2006 2:06:41 PM PDT
by
rattrap
To: blam
"The finds suggest that Neandertals were the intellectual equals of H. sapiens, at least in toolmaking,"![](http://members.cox.net/dcliff_817/images/geico.gif)
You people are just so incredibly condescending.
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posted on
05/16/2006 2:07:56 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: blam
They're going to find stuff like this when they excavate my husband's basement workshop!
To: ClearCase_guy
Scientists are always so pround of finding out how wrong they were last time.
Good thing, too. Got to love the learning process - without it the last human being would have ended his life several million years in some hyena's stomach.
To: afraidfortherepublic
They're going to find stuff like this when they excavate my husband's basement workshop! You just reminded me of my basement "laboratory" back when I was in high school. I was gung-ho chemistry and often spent entire weekends working on projects. Never did really blow anything up, I was mostly working with electrolytes and active metals.
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posted on
05/16/2006 2:42:43 PM PDT
by
capt. norm
(W.C. Fields: "Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.")
To: blam
I think that the brain size of Neanderthal, on the average, was larger than that of H. Sapien. Check it out, and consider the consequence.
To: blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; ...
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posted on
05/16/2006 10:49:01 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: blam
At both caves, Neandertals fashioned bladelets in a series of stone-cutting operations similar to those employed by Homo sapiens several thousand years later, Bernaldo de Quiros now proposes.
This reminds me of something from last year, regarding the age of some art that had to be Neandertal in origin when a better technique pushed back the date. Gee, I wonder what kind of ad hoc fallback position will be concocted by the "Neanderthals [sic] went extinct because they were inferior" wank-jobs?
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posted on
05/16/2006 10:59:44 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: blam
I always wondered why the theory that Neanderthals were so very backward and stupid.
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posted on
05/17/2006 5:18:47 AM PDT
by
Dustbunny
(The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
To: ClearCase_guy
Scientists are always so pround of finding out how wrong they were last time. They consider it marching forward with the latest and greatest information. I call it: Finding out your last guess wasn't right either.
I suppose you can't simply think of scientists in any other way then a hive mind collective? Who says this theory was devised by the same scientist who came up with the previous held theory? Scientists are fond of improvement, unlike some people who merely desire dogma.
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posted on
05/18/2006 12:11:07 AM PDT
by
S0122017
To: Citizen Tom Paine
I think that the brain size of Neanderthal, on the average, was larger than that of H. Sapien. Check it out, and consider the consequence.
Their brains where larger, but studies point out that among modern humans, brains sizes have only a little effect on intelligent. Ofcourse the brains of neanderthals where a lot larger, but quality can't be discerned from fossils.
In any case, it is possible that their huge brains caused them to sit on a rock thinking all day while the stupid retarted homo sapiens spent their days procreating and killing anything in sight :) That would be a case where there is a evolutionary benefit to being stupid.
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posted on
05/18/2006 12:17:07 AM PDT
by
S0122017
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