Posted on 03/18/2012 5:24:33 PM PDT by varmintman
You can still find these guys at any union meeting.
That may be part of the reason for the popular myth, which says we’re all really just the same, and speaks of some sort of a happy, idyllic prehistoric period in which Gaea-worshiping matriarchal societies dominated a happier planet.....
Not quite Barbara Bach in a fur bikini now is it? I’ll keep my inmage of what cave people looked like, you all can keep yours.
Cave PEOPLE are one thing, the Neanderthal was a cave ape. Cro Magnons did in fact look better than that.
Based on my guys turning inside out the minute I see these pictures, I have a hunch this guy's art is accurate to what the species actually looked like.
There’s a hint of tan line... she must have had a different fur bikini for the colder temperatures in early spring.
Apes and humans are completely different species and the Neantherdal skulls are definitely more apelike.
Assuming he’s correct, I wouldn’t mind seeing his work on Cro-magnan skulls to see what they look like without anthropomorphism.
I agree Laz, in spite of Nat’l Geographic’s pictorial presentations that tried to make them look much like us, I have always felt that this is what they really looked like.
I’d hope she would tan nude.
The bias in favor of the "out of Africa", "we are all brother" hypothesis made me conclude that it was undoubtedly a load of Cro-Magnon crap.
The Cro-Magnons, frequently identified as ancestral to the Europeans and Chinese, had a larger brain than modern man, and were a tad taller ~ probably from a better diet based on wild game, nuts, berries and roots.
During the last quarter of the latest period of glacial advance most European, North Asian and East Asian populations were confined to small unglaciated areas called "refugia". Modern populations are descended from these small groups ~ each is differentiated by various minor gene differences.
The Sa'ami seem to have retained many more of the specific differences that identify the Cro-Magnon people and to a degree may better represent the ancestral population of most of the people in the world.
There have been some changes. Southern tribes gave up living on ice and hunting reindeer and seals. They developed agriculture and animal domestication which changed their diet to the far more unhealthy one of bread and boiled beef. This has led to other, less valuable, genetic differentiation.
No. If anything like that were still around, it would be really obvious from all the remains of deer and farm animals lying around.
I admit looking at it is unsettling.
Oh. You'd hit it? That's a surprise. Not.
There are racial differences in hat size. White folks, in general, don't have the biggest hat sizes BTW.
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