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If nothing else this guy ought to have a total lock on horror movies for the next ten years. Anybody with brains and talent ought to be able to make a fairly good living out of that one.
Posted on 03/02/2012 7:31:23 AM PST by Renfield
IT LOOKS like Neanderthals may have beaten modern humans to the seas. Growing evidence suggests our extinct cousins criss-crossed the Mediterranean in boats from 100,000 years ago - though not everyone is convinced they weren't just good swimmers.
Neanderthals lived around the Mediterranean from 300,000 years ago. Their distinctive "Mousterian" stone tools are found on the Greek mainland and, intriguingly, have also been found on the Greek islands of Lefkada, Kefalonia and Zakynthos. That could be explained in two ways: either the islands weren't islands at the time, or our distant cousins crossed the water somehow....
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
Humans are, zoologically speaking, apes. The two apes closest in DNA are humans and chimpanzees. The ‘odd man out’ of the ape group is actually the orangutan - not us. Orangutans are more genetically distinct from the other apes than we are.
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If nothing else this guy ought to have a total lock on horror movies for the next ten years. Anybody with brains and talent ought to be able to make a fairly good living out of that one.
I thought we were closer to Bonobo’s than chimps.
Bonobo chimps and Pan chimps live on the opposite side of a river. It is exactly what one would expect if there were once only one population of chimps, and then the river changed course and ran through the middle of their population. Chimps don't swim or otherwise cross rivers - so just as languages diverge between two groups kept apart - genetic differences accumulated and the two populations diverged in DNA and habits (most notably with bonobo chimps being sex maniacs!).
Bonobo chimps and Pan chimps live on the opposite side of a river. It is exactly what one would expect if there were once only one population of chimps, and then the river changed course and ran through the middle of their population. Chimps don't swim or otherwise cross rivers - so just as languages diverge between two groups kept apart - genetic differences accumulated and the two populations diverged in DNA and habits (most notably with bonobo chimps being sex maniacs!).
Vendramini’s claim is totally simple and logical. Neanderthals kept their basic primate appearance (what you’d expect from their DNA being halfway between ours and that of chimpanzees); became total carnivores in the European ice age; developed the long dense fur coats which all ice age animals had and without which nothing would have lasted forty seconds in the European ice age; developed big eyes for nocturnal predation activity, explaining the eye sockets being twice the size of ours; lost the big canines of apes after they developed knives and cutting tools.
My oldest became an EVMS manager, younger kid is majoring in maths.
Dummies.
Not.
One of my kids has kind of red hair too. Smart as a whip. Two distinct eyebrows too.
Neanderthals swimming across the Mediterranean......no way.....all that hair would clog up the Strait of Gibraltar and there’s not enough drain cleaner in the world to clear out that kind of mess.
They were marooned on those islands when the Costa Isinka ran aground there.
If, as is claimed, Neanderthals and humans could mate and produce fertile children than we are the same animal. All differences are superficial.
Lions and Tigers can produce fertile offspring. Are they the same animal with all differences being superficial, or are they genetically and morphologically and behaviorally distinct species?
Take a look at those images above and let me know if you’d want to mate with anything which looked like that....
What makes you think you’d get a choice?
That's been a contention of mine for some time. The Med was severly dessicated during the Ice Age and was refilled between 12-7k years ago. Once the Med was refilled, the Black Sea refilled.
Refugees from 'all over the world' were talking about rising water everywhere.
Noah decides to build an ark.
Eyes aren’t big enough...
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