Portrait of an 8-year-old Neanderthal boy who lived more than 30,000 years ago is REVEALED by scientists who reconstructed his face using a skull found in 1938

Daily Mail ^ | 18 Jan 2023 | By STACY LIBERATORE

[pierrem15]

The dark skin tone is probably incorrect as we know the genes for red hair came from Neanderthals and is it is highly likely that Neanderthals living in Europe developed lighter skin as well as lighter hair just as modern humans did.

[sten]

while that might be the case, securing intact DNA from so far back is almost impossible.

as for facial features, the act of smiling takes so many muscles for a little used gesture (back then) they wouldn’t have bothered (it’s a learned behavior).

[blam]

I've been using this picture for a couple decades now. It was constructed from a skull of a 'hybrid' Human/Neanderthal.

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The Neanderthal Theory Of Autism And Asperger’s

[Does so]

According to a recent study, Neanderthals had already died out before those blue/green eye colorings appeared in the evolutionary tree.

https://www.positivemed.com/2013/12/08/surprising-origin-blue-eyes/

[ifinnegan]

Good points.

I’ve noticed the DNA tests give Neanderthal components and it seemed to be associated with European background.

[blam]

"According to a recent study, Neanderthals had already died out before those blue/green eye colorings appeared in the evolutionary tree."

Yup. The blue eye mutation is reported to have occurred only once.

Everyone related to me has our characteristic bright blue eyes.

9,000 year old Cheddar Man had blue eyes. He has the same DNA (U5a) as my dad's mother, grandma Smith. He is also reported to have had dark skin too. My employees used to tell me that I resembled Paul Newman.

[Does so]

“Would this not mean that their eyes are much larger and rounder than ours?”

Perhaps, but what I recall from a medical exameriner’s presentation about identifying skeletal remains:

Round eye sockets are characteristic of Caucasians.

Rectangular eye sockets characteristic of Africans.

Oval eye sockets are characteristic of Asians.

In movies of the 1950s, Amerindian braves spoke of white-folk as “the round-eyes”.

[Does so]

See my post above.