[SunkenCiv]

IOW, the following excerpt is just some more master race bull****:

The reconstruction of 27 complete human limb bones found in Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain) has helped to determine the height of various species of the Pleistocene era. Homo heidelbergensis, like Neanderthals, were similar in height to the current population of the Mediterranean...

The humans who arrived in Europe during the Upper Palaeolithic era, Cro-Magnons or anatomically modern humans, replaced the Neanderthal populations. They were significantly taller than other human species and their average height for both sexes was higher, falling in the very tall individual category.

Height remained the same for some 2 million years.

According to the researchers, putting aside the margin corresponding to small biotype species like Homo habilis (East Africa), Homo georgicus (Georgia) and Homo floresiensis (Flores in Indonesia), all documented humans during the Early and Middle Pleistocene Era that inhabited Africa (Homo ergaster, Homo rhodesiensis), Asia (Homo erectus) and Europe (Homo antecessor, Homo heidelbergensis and Homo neanderthalensis) seemed to have medium and above-medium heights for the most part of two millions years. However, the researchers state that "amongst every population we have found a tall or very tall individual."

In their opinion, this suggests that the height of the Homo genus remained more or less stable for 2 million years until the appearance of a "ground-breaking species in this sense" in Africa just 200,000 years ago. These were the Homo sapiens, who were initially significantly taller than any other species that existed at the time.

June 6, 2012 | ScienceDaily | Homo heidelbergensis was only slightly taller than the Neanderthal

[antidemoncrat]

A scientific breakthrough or just another study the result of which is more study needed?

[mountainlion]

What if it was a baby bigfoot?

[Verginius Rufus]

The article says the average Neanderthal was between 150 and 160 centimeters tall. Translated into American, that's 5 ft. to 5 ft. 4. They now think some may have been as tall as 175 centimeters which is 5 ft. 10 inches.

Since they found the footprints at the beach, maybe they can't say whether the Neanderthals always went barefoot or only when they were at the beach.

[ameribbean expat]

Did one of those genome study thingies, came back with 92% more Neanderthal than other participants in their database. Comments of all women I’ve ever dated confirmed.

[Openurmind]

Can you believe this heresy? Next thing you know these scientists will be trying to say they didn’t walk hunched over like monkeys and actually verbally communicated rather than just grunting at each other.

Oh wait... lol

[pepsi_junkie]

I don’t understand this. If they have complete neanderthal skeletons (and they do) then they can (and have) measured exactly how tall they are. Unless what they are really saying is that they STOOD taller with a longer stride and had previously assumed they slumped around like gorillas. But if that’s what they beleived then every representation of neanderthals in every museum I’ve been in was lying because they show the neanderthals walking around fully upright.

[bgill]

Dad, mom, grandma, the kids and a couple of cousins all went to the beach for a little vacay.

[fso301]

Perhaps their strides were longer because they were moving about in a hurry for fear of CroMagnons suddenly appearing.

[Larry Lucido]

I’d say it just proves that their feet reached the ground.

[Openurmind]

I think there were some new Neanderthal footprints also found in Greece I think it was. Seem to remember reading this a few weeks ago.