[Theoria]

bff, ping.

[avacado]

"Somewhere between 45,000 and 35,000 years ago, early humans came along."

Humans came along only 40,000 or so years ago? What did we come from?

[Hodar]

[Tijeras_Slim]

"Somewhere between 45,000 and 35,000 years ago, early humans came along."

That is early... it's all I can do to drag my sorry butt out of bed by 6 AM.

[fish hawk]

Neanderthals are not human?? I guess they are apes then, huh? If they are neither, that only leaves the “missing link”, and I don’t recall them being called that.

[Joe 6-pack]

WOOOF!

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[Snickering Hound]

"Get a dog? It'll clog the drain!"

[Cicero]

“Neanderthal” is a term of abuse often employed by liberals to condemn conservatives.

I’d like to propose a new theory. The Neanderthals died out because they were liberals.

Perhaps they expected their dogs to do all the work for them, and the dogs finally revolted in disgust.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The cause, some theories go, may have been environmental, with Neanderthals' decline a byproduct of -- yikes -- climate change.

Always gotta work in some climate change propaganda, no matter how ludicrous and out-of-place.

[TexasRepublic]

I still rely on dogs to keep Neaderthals out of my house.

[varon]

What happened? What went so wrong for the Neanderthals -- and what went so right for us humans?

I would think it is rather obvious. The Neanderthals chose to follow the path to Socialism while the humans chose the way of capitalism. History is about to repeat itself!!!

[chopperman]

The muzzies are the new Neandrathals. They don’t get along with dogs either.

[chesley]

This theory actually makes a little sense.

Although, I prefer the theory that Neandertals were the descendents of Cain, and got wipe out in the Flood.

Or maybe they were the Nephilim.

Or maybe after they got a look at the Cro-Magnon, the Neanderthal males just couldn’t get it going with their own females. No, that couldn’t be it. They were men

[US Navy Vet]

This “Article” is pure TRIPE!

[Reeses]

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.

[bunkerhill7]

Neanderthals died off from eating govt regulated school lunches.

Cro-Magnon moms filled schoolkids` lunchboxs with junk food.

[Buckeye McFrog]

What happened? What went so wrong for the Neanderthals?

Maybe they elected a bunch of Socialists?

[afraidfortherepublic]

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.

[ZULU]

Maybe they can help us beat the Muslims too.

[Crucial]

Yet another reason to choose dogs over cats.