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To: varmintman
Thanks for the ping. Here are some photos of Modern Neanderthals.


108 posted on 03/28/2012 9:51:10 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: UCANSEE2

Somebody like Bill Kazmaier or Haloti Ngata might be ballpark for as strong as a halfway big male neanderthal, I don’t see how any of the guys your pics show would be. You’re dealing with something closer to a gorilla than a chimp in size and you’re dealing with something whose idea of a good time was killing a mammoth or woolly rhino or cave bear with just thrusting spears with stone tips.


110 posted on 03/28/2012 10:39:39 AM PDT by varmintman
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To: UCANSEE2
Again, updated Neanderthal images courtesy of wwsw.themandus.org

You have to think about that one image a bit for what it means to sink in:

You read that Neanderthals were normally around 5-6 and there's a tendency to wonder how strong somebody 5-6 could be since we think in human terms. But the human in that figure at 5-6 would be ballpark for the size and weight of a lightweight or junior welter prizefighter i.e. around 140 lbs and the Neanderthal appears to be at least double that so that you're looking at a creature which was typically around 5-6 and 300 lbs without being fat or overweight; the human race doesn't include anything like that.

125 posted on 03/30/2012 5:49:24 AM PDT by varmintman
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