So.... Europeans ancestors were Neandethals? NOBODY's ancestors were Neanderthals, in any way, shape, or manner, we're not related to Neanderthals or any other ape or hominid at all. The claim that Asians and Europeans have 4% Neanderthal genes while Africans don't is idiotic to the extent that people are using that to claim that European or Asian ancestors interbred with Neanderthals, it never happened. There's almost no genetic diversity in modern humans compared to other mammals. That indicates a very recent bottleneck at which the human population numbered no more than fifty to a hundred individuals. Any crossbreeding with a glorified ape PRIOR to that bottleneck and Africans would not get left out. Any crossing with a glorified ape AFTER the bottleneck but not involving Africans, and the genetic gap between Africans and everybody else would be gigantic, and not minuscule as it is.
Hominids such as the Neanderthal were the most advanced member of the same family of creatures as chimpanzees and gorillas; we are simply not a member of that family.
"and contrary to some ideas...Neandertals were far more advanced than has been previously thought" I agree with that...In fact, there is some thought that maybe we (modern humans - Caucasian/Asians) got some of our higher IQ from the Neanderthals.
There has been a recent discovery of a new human species in China.
Mysterious Chinese Fossils May Be New Human Species
As I've noted, we now know what Neanderthals looked like:
You may have gotten YOUR IQ from that guy, none of mine comes from him. In fact, every Neanderthal who ever lived past eight or ten had some sort of a "tool kit" or a bag with knives, scrapers, and spear points, and in all those thousands of tools the one thing they've never found is a needle; that's right, a creature with a 6" fur coat doesn't NEED clothing or needles. By contrast, a google image search on "cro magnon needle" turns up lots of good ancient needles:
Another good google search is "neanderthal rodeo", which turns up any number hits comparing the kinds of injuries found amongst Neanderthal remains with those seen in rodeo performers, some such as one Wiki artgicle noting that The pattern of fractures, along with the absence of throwing weapons, suggests that they may have hunted by leaping onto their prey and stabbing or even wrestling it to the ground.[12]
The problem: I can easily enough picture a group of large and aggressive primates doing that (leaping onto aurochs and mammoths with knives and spears), but I don't have any picture of humans doing that or of anything close to a human doing that. Danny Vendramini is right; the Neanderthal was basically a bipedal and carniverous ape.
Friend’s site, no crazier than any other theory of human origins near as I can tell, quite a bit DIFFERERNT....
That indicates a very recent bottleneck at which the human population numbered no more than fifty to a hundred individuals.
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... very recent bottleneck = Mt Toba supervolcano eruption circa 74,000 BC. Very few of us survived.
