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Neanderthals may have been wiped out by EAR INFECTIONS: Scientists say complications of the common..
dm ^ | 9/20/2019 | jack elsom

Posted on 09/20/2019 11:41:54 AM PDT by RummyChick

Ear infections likely killed off the Neanderthals, according to scientists who claim to have cracked the mystery surrounding the species' extinction.

While antibiotics are taken for granted in the modern world, a lack of sophisticated medicine 40,000 years ago is believed to have seen the archaic species suffer from the common childhood illness and then perish.

Moreover, Neanderthals were more prone to contracting an ear infection as they had smaller ears, providing a tighter space for bacteria to become clogged up.

This is believed to have led to breathing and hearing problems and pneumonia.

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To: freedumb2003

The world’s comin’ to an end, I don’t even care
As long as I can have a limo and my orange hair


21 posted on 09/20/2019 12:08:57 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Spruce

Tooth decay and gum disease are common since the advent of agriculture, 10,000 years ago.


22 posted on 09/20/2019 12:09:50 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: RummyChick

Nope. It was white supremacy and the legacy of slavery that killed them off.


23 posted on 09/20/2019 12:10:23 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: tbw2

Maybe earwigs? They enter the ear and eat through the brain. Sometimes they leave eggs.


24 posted on 09/20/2019 12:10:48 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Cowboy Bob

"KHAAAAAAAAAN!"

25 posted on 09/20/2019 12:12:24 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Tallguy

I agree with you as they have no real way to prove such a theory. They just dream it up and pass it on as settled science.

I caught on to their far out conclusions when watching a T-Rex show where they said the monster had an outstanding ability to smell. This was based on a rather large olfactory cavity. For an animal that primitive it is likely such a large cavity could be proportionately primitive, meaning size has nothing to do with how well it can smell anything.


26 posted on 09/20/2019 12:13:26 PM PDT by redfreedom
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To: mosaicwolf

There are too many people being paid for rummaging around in the past. It’s interesting, but of what use is it knowing neanderthals got ear infections. Next week we will hear their ears were big. This week their noses are huge, but the following week their noses were tiny. It must dishearten a hard working brick layer or road worker. Working hard. And reading that some nerds in white coats are pulling in big money looking at fossilized bird shit or in this case, neanderthal ears. It’s not right


27 posted on 09/20/2019 12:19:51 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: RummyChick

“Earache my eye!”


28 posted on 09/20/2019 12:22:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: redfreedom

“Neanderthals have not died out, they are alive and mentally sick in the rat party.”

Congressman Al Green, fer sher.


29 posted on 09/20/2019 12:24:40 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (A man's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
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To: RummyChick

There seem to be plenty of other things out there with smaller ear holes. How are they surviving? Or, are we just witness to their ultimate demise?


30 posted on 09/20/2019 12:26:11 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: RummyChick

Wouldn’t this show up in the fossil record?

An ear infection bad enough to kill would show some erosion of the skulls ear canal, no?


31 posted on 09/20/2019 12:27:07 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: RummyChick

Hi.

“Ear infections likely killed off the Neanderthals, “

Meadow muffins.

Exhibit A, Al Green (D-TX)

5.56mm


32 posted on 09/20/2019 12:29:24 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

An ear infection bad enough to kill would show some erosion of the skulls ear canal, no?

It should. Chronic otitis media (inner ear infection) leads to mastoiditis - an infection of the mastoid bone of the skull right behind the ear. That would scar that area of the skull. That was a big problem in the Native peoples of old Alaska pre-antibiotics. This can lead to deafness and then the saber tooth tiger can sneak up on you more easily and we all know what happens next!


33 posted on 09/20/2019 12:57:31 PM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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To: RummyChick

It`s only hearsay.


34 posted on 09/20/2019 12:57:44 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: RummyChick

35 posted on 09/20/2019 1:01:40 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


36 posted on 09/20/2019 1:02:08 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: RummyChick
Neanderthals were more prone to contracting an ear infection as they had smaller ears, providing a tighter space for bacteria to become clogged up.

Obviously they were never warned about the dangers of using Q-tips to clean the ears.......

37 posted on 09/20/2019 1:04:43 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: freedumb2003

My momma talkin’ to me tryin’ to tell me how to live...


38 posted on 09/20/2019 1:09:49 PM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: redfreedom

Another factor: we know that modern humans have different ear wax based largely along racial makeup. Do we have any ideas about Neanderthal ear wax? Because that would tend to mitigate the susceptibility to ear infection. Certainly there’s no evidence in the fossil record.


39 posted on 09/20/2019 1:12:27 PM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

I would think so. Physicians can look at people like me and determine due to canal deformities that we have had a history of severe ear infections. Im guessing it should be as easy as hiring a local ENT to take a quick look at the pile of patients on the table, its not like there is any tissue blocking the view.


40 posted on 09/20/2019 1:13:42 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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