[SunkenCiv]

Workers carry out an excavation at the Atapuerca archaeology site in July

I thought this had been posted, but I couldn't find it.

• Neanderthals had feelings too, say York researchers
• Neanderthals more advanced than previously thought (they were a different kind of human)
• Neanderthals were able to 'develop their own tools'
• Neanderthals more advanced than previously thought
• Neanderthal's Cozy Bedroom Unearthed
• Did Neandertals Think Like Us?
• Neanderthals are part of the human family
• Neanderthals 'Hardly Differed at All' from Modern Humans
• Neanderthals, Humans Interbred—First Solid DNA Evidence -Most of us have some Neanderthal genes
• You're a Neanderthal: Genes say yes — a little bit
• Scientists prove humans bred with Neanderthals
• Neanderthals live on in DNA of humans
• Because they were worth it? Research finds Neanderthals enjoyed makeup
• Neanderthal 'make-up' containers discovered
• 2010 preview: Arise, Neanderthal brother
• Neanderthals wouldn't have eaten their sprouts either
• Neanderthals wouldn't have eaten their sprouts either
• In The Neanderthal Mind

[muawiyah]

Quite a collection of relatively recent articles about Neanderthals.

The first folks to dig them up were of the impression they were human. Nice to know they still are.

Remember, they lived in Europe through several ice ages. They had to come up with biological and physical innovations to see them through safely (for 100,000 years at a clip).

For one thing they had to increase their birth rate ~ hence TWINS. With twins as a regular item, the females had to have FOUR milk giving breasts. To overcome the cold they needed additional fat padding.

So, I envision Neanderthal women as being rather like large beach balls with four breasts.

There may be some reasons here their mitochondrial DNA didn't get passed down to us.

[Grizzled Bear]

Scientists said Monday they had uncovered evidence suggesting cave dwellers who lived in northern Spain some 500,000 years ago took care of their elderly and infirm.

Yet today many seek to starve, dehydrate and euthenize our elderly and other "useless eaters.

Is this proof of "evolution?"

[wildbill]

“An earlier study carried out at the same site in 2009 concluded that the cave dwellers who lived there were cannibals who valued the flesh of children and adolescents.”

Although the children may be tenderer and the teens tastier, in most societies the elderly are the first to go.

I bet the ‘sign’ from the title of the article said something like:

Obama Nutrition Panels for Free Soylent Green of the Elderly down this corridor.——>