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Neandertal babies had stocky chests like their parents
Science News ^ | October 7, 2020 | Bruce Bower

Posted on 10/19/2020 1:55:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Neandertal babies had chests shaped like short, deep barrels and spines that curved inward more than those of humans, a build that until now was known only for Neandertal adults, researchers say.

Neandertals must have inherited those skeletal features rather than developing them as their bodies grew, says a team led by paleobiologist Daniel Garcia Martinez of the National Research Center on Human Evolution in Burgos, Spain. Stocky, big-brained hominids such as Neandertals needed chest cavities arranged in this way from birth to accommodate lungs large enough to meet their energy needs, the scientists contend October 7 in Science Advances.

Garcia Martinez and his colleagues digitally reconstructed rib cages of four previously excavated, partial Neandertal skeletons from infants and young children. The youngsters are estimated to have died when they were about one to two weeks old, four months or less, 1.5 years and 2.5 years. These finds, dating to between around 40,000 and 70,000 years ago, came from sites in France, Syria and western Russia. Each fossil child had a short, deep rib cage and a short spine behind the ribs relative to human infants. On the most complete specimen -- the 1.5-year-old child -- the researchers determined that the spine curved sharply into the chest cavity.

...And a Neandertal-like ribcage appeared 1.5 million years ago in an African Homo erectus skeleton, Garcia Martinez contended in a paper published online July 6 in Nature Ecology & Evolution...

That appears to be a likely scenario, says paleoanthropologist Timothy Weaver of the University of California, Davis. It's unclear, though, why early H. sapiens evolved slighter bodies that contrasted with what had been a typically stocky physique in other Homo species, adds Weaver, who did not participate in the new study.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals
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]

1 posted on 10/19/2020 1:55:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 10/19/2020 1:56:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Slighter” bodies made it easier for Homo sapiens to run from H. neanderthalis.


3 posted on 10/19/2020 2:01:00 AM PDT by Does so (Make mail-ins "provisional", count if walk-in vote is close. Ban ALL provisional if 2 are faked.)
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4 posted on 10/19/2020 2:04:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Sunken City,
Your “Imaginary” has got my head spinning. This reads like something
That artist Escher would have thought of.

Or, it could be a lyric from a song by early Donovan.


5 posted on 10/19/2020 2:11:52 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: SunkenCiv

6 posted on 10/19/2020 2:49:53 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: SunkenCiv

7 posted on 10/19/2020 3:06:01 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Long Jon No Silver

Damn you! Now my coffee doesn’t taste good because of the bile in the back of my throat.


8 posted on 10/19/2020 3:12:11 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$

So sorry!!


9 posted on 10/19/2020 3:21:58 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: SunkenCiv

Fat shaming


10 posted on 10/19/2020 3:23:11 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Long Jon No Silver

;-)


11 posted on 10/19/2020 3:29:39 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: SunkenCiv

The brilliance behind this discovery is breath-taking.....


12 posted on 10/19/2020 5:29:43 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Long Jon No Silver

Thank you.
I LoLed so hard, I woke up the cat.


13 posted on 10/19/2020 5:51:01 AM PDT by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: SunkenCiv

They had to have huge chests to accommodate their huge lung capacity since there was less oxygen to breathe becaus eof Glowbull warming...............


14 posted on 10/19/2020 6:17:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: SunkenCiv

short, deep barrels?

Like TARDIS barrels, short on the outside deep on the inside?


15 posted on 10/19/2020 7:43:50 AM PDT by null and void (Don't piss off old people. The older we get the less 'life in prison' is a deterent!)
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To: SunkenCiv
It's unclear, though, why early H. sapiens evolved slighter bodies that contrasted with what had been a typically stocky physique in other Homo species, adds Weaver, who did not participate in the new study.

How exactly are Neandertals supposed to participate in a new study if they are extinct?

16 posted on 10/19/2020 7:47:27 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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How exactly are Neandertals supposed to participate in a new study if they are extinct?

Via U.S. Postal Service. Some participated two or three times.

17 posted on 10/19/2020 9:00:42 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: Sirius Lee
Rimshot - Ba dum tssshhh
Note: most people of European ancestry carry as much Neandertal DNA as they do the DNA of each of their great-great-great-great-grandparents. IOW, Neandertal isn't extinct.

18 posted on 10/19/2020 10:01:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: DannyTN; Does so; Long Jon No Silver; lee martell; mad_as_he$$; metmom; null and void; ...
It stands to reason that young Neandertal men were nudging each other to check out the lungs on vsarious Neandertal women.

19 posted on 10/19/2020 10:04:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The Song of the Neanderthal people !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCV6paTXyCU


20 posted on 10/19/2020 10:06:29 AM PDT by Reily
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