Posted on 02/20/2019 10:17:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Neandertals' ...are traditionally considered carnivores and hunters of large mammals, but this hypothesis has recently been challenged by numerous pieces of evidence of plant consumption. Ancient diets are often reconstructed using nitrogen isotope ratios, a tracer of the trophic level, the position an organism occupies in a food chain. Neandertals are apparently occupying a high position in terrestrial food chains, exhibiting slightly higher ratios than carnivores (like hyenas, wolves or foxes) found at the same sites. It has been suggested that these slightly higher values were due to the consumption of mammoth or putrid meat. And we also know some examples of cannibalism for different Neandertal sites.
Paleolithic modern humans, who arrived in France shortly after the Neandertals had disappeared, exhibit even higher nitrogen isotope ratios than Neandertals. This is classically interpreted as the signature of freshwater fish consumption. Fishing is supposed to be a typical modern human activity, but again, a debate exists whether or not Neandertals were eating aquatic resources. When Klervia Jaouen, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and first author of the study, and collaborators discovered high nitrogen isotope ratios in the collagen of two Neandertals falling in the range of modern humans, they wondered whether this could a signature of regular fish consumption...
...a novel isotope technique. Compound-specific isotope analyses (CSIA) allow to separately analyze the amino acids contained in the collagen. Some of the amino acid isotope compositions are influenced by environmental factors and the isotope ratios of the food eaten. Other amino acid isotope ratios are in addition influenced by the trophic level. The combination of these amino acid isotope ratios allows to decipher the contribution of the environment and the trophic level to the final isotope composition of the collagen.
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Another old saying:
“Hunger is the best sauce.”
Deeper voices don't travel greater distance, it's quite the opposite. Of course, that quibble isn't the salient point -- the salient point is, the Neandertals didn't go extinct, the Neandertal are among the ancestors of most of the people in Eurasia and a good many outside (thanks to the Great Migration / Age of Sail).
The bravest man who ever lived
was the first man to eat a raw oyster.
Fact: Low frequency sounds travel further. Think: fog horn.
And how does <4% Neanderthal DNA make Neanderthals “ ancestors of most of the people in Eurasia and a good many outside” It’s an insignificant amount.
Show me a present day Neanderthal tribe. They’re extinct.
But was it grass fed?
Are you kidding, or what? Since we have Neandertal DNA, they ARE our ancestors. Each of us has 64 great-great-great-great-grandparents, 32 on each side of our family, and yet each of us carry no more than 46 of them (2.17% each) in our DNA. By your odd standard, they aren't ancestors either. Despite the length of time since the last type sample walked the Earth, people still carry DNA identifiable as Neandertal. Snap out of it.
Humans are not fog horns, but think small town fire siren, or for that matter, ambulances, police vehicles, fire trucks -- all those are high pitched. Think human voices in a choir -- very treble.
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