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Humanity's Best Friend: How Dogs May Have Helped Humans Beat the Neanderthals
The Atlantic ^
| 14 May 2012
| Megan Garber
Posted on 05/15/2012 11:00:12 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: Theoria
This “Article” is pure TRIPE!
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posted on
05/15/2012 12:13:20 PM PDT
by
US Navy Vet
(Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
To: Theoria
humans' comparative evolutionary fitness owes itself to the domestication of dogs. Leftist academia is allergic to two fundamental characteristics of man: war and religion. Dogs are mostly useful as an early warning to an impending raid. Humans are especially smelly and dogs can easily smell two legged threats coming. The key competitive advantage Cro-Magnon man had over Neanderthals was religion, which both unifies a culture and makes warriors fearless and unshakably optimistic. The Neanderthals were not religious. Religion is an overwhelming competitive advantage in tribal warfare.
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posted on
05/15/2012 12:14:59 PM PDT
by
Reeses
To: Theoria
Yep Noah, his wife and 3 sons and their wives and LOTS of animals and NO others.
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posted on
05/15/2012 12:20:34 PM PDT
by
US Navy Vet
(Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
To: Theoria
Neanderthals died off from eating govt regulated school lunches.
Cro-Magnon moms filled schoolkids` lunchboxs with junk food.
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posted on
05/15/2012 12:23:48 PM PDT
by
bunkerhill7
(Cro-Magnons live?`?? Who knew?)
To: US Navy Vet
There were others. I was talking about the sons of Anak.
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posted on
05/15/2012 12:28:41 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
To: Theoria
What happened? What went so wrong for the Neanderthals?
Maybe they elected a bunch of Socialists?
To: chesley
All mankind, less true Africans, have more than a smattering of Neanderthal DNA in them.
I’d say they were just another variety of humans and bred into the population.
Also, for the record, Neaderthals were likely smarter than the average homo sapien, with larger brains. Stronger, too.
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05/15/2012 1:01:15 PM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
...has come to an intriguing conclusion: that humans' comparative evolutionary fitness owes itself to the domestication of dogs.
Rufus Hotsauce
There is a legend in my family told to me by my daddy, Wolfgang, that the ancient and founder of all clans of poodle-kind wrote as an ancient scribe in Southwestern Germany many thousands of years ago, of a legend that a puppy wolf was rescued by a tribe of 'non harry people' and they nurtured him. In time, a marauding band of harry people with funny eyebrows attacked the non-harrys, the Wolf protected his adopted tribe, and thus a partnership of the eons was formed.
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05/15/2012 1:09:02 PM PDT
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BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
To: Jewbacca
Id say they were just another variety of humans and bred into the population This is actually my true opinion. I never did understand why some many anthropologists were so eageer to designate them as a distinct species, unable to breed with modern humans, on what seemed to me to ve very little evidence. Or maybe I do.
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05/15/2012 1:39:44 PM PDT
by
chesley
(Eat what you want, and die like a man. Never trust anyone who hasn't been punched in the face)
To: Jewbacca
Homo sapiens could outrun a neanderthal. Neanderthals would have a strength advantage, but modern humans could attack with projectile weapons and run out of reach. H. sap had atlatls and perhaps bows 50,000 years ago.
Constant warfare was the way of life for most primitive societies.
Our ancestors probably ATE the neanderthals.
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05/15/2012 2:52:11 PM PDT
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darth
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Thanks Theoria.
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] To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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posted on
05/15/2012 4:30:30 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Theoria
Dogs, however, also recognize the power of the gaze. That's for darn sure. My Golden doesn't have to whimper, or bark. He just gazes at a person with big brown eyes and people give him a treat. The same works in reverse. Catch his eye, and he will immediately sit and get another treat. Not a sound is passed between us.
To: SunkenCiv
In fact, a guy might even choose his dog over his girl. :-))
To: Theoria
Maybe they can help us beat the Muslims too.
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posted on
05/15/2012 6:41:57 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non Nobis Domine Non Nobis Sed Nomini Tuo Da Gloriam.)
To: Tijeras_Slim
Neanderthal dog walking in NYC
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05/15/2012 6:45:46 PM PDT
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Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Theoria
Haven’t you ever seen the movie, ‘It’s A Neanderthal Christmas’?
The meat rendering scene is so touching.
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posted on
05/15/2012 6:46:44 PM PDT
by
Delta Dawn
(The whole truth.)
To: SunkenCiv
Would there have been Cro Magnon Magnon had Neanderthal genetic material not found its way into our DNA?
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05/15/2012 6:49:15 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: BenLurkin; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...
“Living under the cloud of Israel’s cruel apartheid” was the bogus headline. Thanks BenLurkin.
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05/15/2012 6:53:40 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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05/15/2012 6:54:10 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: BenLurkin
As it stands, thanks to Neandertal, we’re Cro Magnon Mignon. :’)
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05/15/2012 6:55:14 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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