“A reconstruction of what Neanderthals might have looked like would be a little more believable if the person doing the reconstruction demonstrated some knowledge of anatomy.”
Here are the reconstructionist’s qualifications, from his website:
“As an atheist and Darwinian scholar, Vendramini’s work is anchored in evidence based research and deduction, but ultimately it is his artistic imagination and scientific creativity that distinguishes his evolutionary theories.”
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This is a case of evoloserism not sufficing to totally ruin good logical thinking. Vendramini’s thesis as to how SQ hominids punk-eeked their way into Cro Magnonhood due to 50K years of suffering predation from Neanderthals is not believable. His reconstruction of the Neanderthal itself is totally logical and totally believable. This whole thing is another nail in the coffin of evolution/evoloserism.
That would be my advice to Vendramini, i.e. get together with Quentin Tarantino and start owning the next 20 years worth of horror flicks. I mean, I hope he (Vendramini) isn't sitting around waiting for evolosers to declare him some sort of a hero of the people or anything like that; gratitude isn't part of their psychological makeup and he's basically just reduced the value of over a hundred years worth of palaeontological scholarship to zero, in industry they call that "disruptive technology".
Yeah. I'll accept the "artistic imagination" and "creativity" parts, but the "scientific" doesn't belong. Honestly, vertical pupils on a primate???
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Perhaps not surprisingly, Vendramini's background is in theater, TV, and film. That would explain why his "Neanderthal" looks less like the person who might have lived in that skull and more like a model for Gollum from Lord of the Rings.