Posted on 06/17/2024 7:25:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
“Neanderthals predated recorded history by a lot”
They killed all the historians.
:-)
Africans have very little Neanderthal DNA (.3%) compared to Europeans (1-4%).
The little they have is likely from (relatively) modern breeding with Europeans.
Non-Africans are part Neanderthal, genetic research shows
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110718085329.htm
I believe there's been some miscommunication between you and me. I was supporting the gist of the topic (increasing knowledge that sometime in the past there was some interbreeding among neanderthals). My point that there's a history of bestiality going back at least thousands of years ago was meant to suggest that it takes no small imagination to believe that human beings also got it on with neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago. Perhaps I didn't state that clearly.
It takes no small imagination to call them animals. No miscommunication, you’re a troll.
So the Neanderthals should get reparations
Is that a club in your pocket, or are you happy to see me??
You don't want to do that.
Because biggest body to brain ratio is in birds.
We come in second.
The bird's brain is mostly devoted to sharp, color sensitive vision. It apparently takes a lot of wetware to make that work. It is possible the Neanderthal brain size was for the same thing. Their eyes, were based on the averages of the remains we have found, larger then Sapiens. Tetrachromacy had to come from some where.
A meaningless example. Bird mass is low because it is designed (or evolved, doesn’t matter here) to fly. So any ratio is flawed.
Comparing a whale to a biped is poor enough, but at least they are both mammals.
Comparing two biped apes with 99+% dna overlap and the same basic niche is a fair bet.
We’re all God’s children in the dark.
Almost all of our behavior comes from culture, not biology, so we don’t have to worry about what we inherited biologically.
This stuff is interesting but can lead to unhelpful and even dangerous ideas.
Except in cases of severe abnormality, variations in the brain are totally leveled by our culture-dominant world. And our instructions are fairly simple.
History Debunked channel has good videos about this. Although i can’t find the one specifically where he talks about the particular gene combo that led to the explosion in art and invention.
https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb/search?query g=neanderthal
Sure.
Neanderthals were not animals-they were human beings...
See post 44.
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