Dying young did not cause Neanderthals' demise

AFP ^ | January 10, 2011 | Unknown

[decimon]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Dying young was not likely the reason Neanderthals went extinct, said a study out Monday that suggests early modern humans had about the same life expectancy as their hairier, ancient cousins.

Scientists have puzzled over why the Neanderthals disappeared just as modern humans were making huge gains and moving into new parts of Africa and Europe, and some have speculated that a difference in longevity may have been to blame.

If anything, higher fertility rates and lower infant mortality gave modern humans an advantage over the Neanderthals, who died off about 30,000 years ago, said the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[decimon]

AFP/File/Patrick Bernard

[decimon]

Ping

[SunkenCiv]

The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve
in local libraries

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]

[Deaf Smith]

"why the Neanderthals disappeared just as modern humans were making huge gains"

Neanderthal women were not as appealing once the human chicks showed up?

[SunkenCiv]

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[muawiyah]

That’s never the real answer. Human beings in established areas clearly show a preference for sex.

[Little Bill]

I will down load to my kindle if available, I hope it is better than you last recommendation on the Middle Ages Warming Period by Brian Fagan, global warming nut.

[sodpoodle]

It’s rather strange how we sort other creatures into species, sub-species etc., but we only have ONE homo-sapiens.

Take cows, for instance: why Friesians, Guernseys and Jerseys??? They all have four legs and hairy coats.

Perhaps we should sort ourselves out by hair/eye/skin color, height, weight and attitude.

Then we might understand how Neanderthals got absorbed and their features subsumed.

[Little Bill]

Blam you might be interested in this. To late for me and no one got et. Remnant culture?

[Little Bill]

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/68493/title/Ancient_farmers_swiftly_spread_westward

[blam]

We are Neanderthals!

[Rebelbase]

"Only the good die young and we partied very, very good".

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They didn't disappear.

They were absorbed.

There is plenty of Neanderthal DNA in Homo Sapiens.

[Deaf Smith]

An explanation for the Superman Syndrome?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYY_syndrome

[Renfield]

I just read Graham Hancock’s “Entangled”. Fast read; I read all 453 pages in one day. Might be a good book for you Neanderthal fans out there.

[decimon]

Neandering fanbois.

[Little Bill]

That is kind of Lamarkian, but then again I have my doubts about about the Out Of Africa theory.

[blam]

"I have my doubts about about the Out Of Africa theory."

Me too.

[Little Bill]

Thank God, I though I was alone. One of the things that always puzzled me and still does is why migrations always seem East To West, North to South, or the center to extremes. A navy Captain in a book I read MANY years ago said that if you want to find the earlier cultures look at the tips of Continents.