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A few more images, again all courtesy of www.themandus.org as per request, some images without the 8" ice-age fur coat for illustration purposes.

Vendramini's neanderthal site

Again the thing Vendramini first noticed. You'd figure this was so obvious that somebody had to have seen it early on i.e. in the 1800s when people first started studying Neanderthals but, apparently, nobody did:

The sort of outlandish thing you get trying to draw a more humanistic Neanderthal WITH the eyes and nose the size which the bones say they'd have to be:

Neanderthal and human body proportions, comparison:

Hominid (Neanderthal) with a spear:

With and without the ice-age fur coat:

Funny thing is, in the case of earlier hominids for which there is no libtard myth for scientists to think they need to protect, the reconstructions they come up with don't look that much different from what Vendramini came up with, at least as far as general features:

That would be "Tumai" a sweet-natured and friendly little African hominid, supposedly from 6M years or so back, minus the huge nocturnal eyes and huge muscularity of the Neanderthal. Notice also that apes and hominids (bipedal apes) do not have the cute S curve in their lower backs which lets humans stand bolt upright comfortably, and thus all appear to be lurching forwards somewhat when on two feet.

As Vendramini notes, seeing something like that walking around with a spear in its hand must have impressed early humans about the way a monkey with a gun would impress us...

The original version (Lieber/Stoller)

It doesn't really get much better than this one. Basically, the Neanderthal, one of the classic libtard/evolutionite icons and poster children, turns out to be an ice-age ape with a spear in his hand. Isn't that just fabulous?

Look closely at that superimposition of the skull onto the gorilla. The neck of the person who originally inhabited the skull would be placed at about a 45^o angle from the gorilla neck, and would be extending from the gorilla's throat in that superimposition. If that person's jawbone were present, it would not fit within the gorilla outline. The ear placement is also wrong; no ear canal is visible where the artist placed the ear, and the actual ear canal is near that V shaped structure, right above where the jaw would attach if it were present.

I'm also not impressed with the full-body reconstruction. With skeletal data, the musculature can be reconstructed reasonably accurately. There is an intact skeleton pictured at Wikipedia, which does not look compatible with the artist's reconstruction of the body shown in your post. The one detail that possibly resists reconstruction from the fossil data would be the skin. Unless soft tissues have been preserved (I don't know of any, but perhaps they have been), it's hard to guess what color the skin was, or how hairy they were. It's almost certain that they did not have shiny dark grey skin like that artist gave them in the pictures you posted--I've never seen skin like that on any living creature.

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. Plenty of people familiar with anatomy have reconstructed Neanderthals, and several examples can be seen on Google.

Forget all that!

I am watching this year's clutch of Decorah Eagles hatch. (Two down, one to go.) In particular, watching the mama eagle do her thing with the eggs, and knowing a bit about what is to come, I thought about the chicken and egg thing.

And what I thought is that the mama eagle (or chicken) doesn't just have to produce an egg and that's the end of it. It would seem she has to know about keeping the eggs warm and moving them around before they hatch and then she has to know how to feed the eaglets until they become mature enough to feed themselves; and she has to have a willing partner to bring her the food to prepare for the eaglets.

We're suppose to think that all of this just evolved to the way it is now, slowly over eons as starving eaglets waited for the right cosmic ray to come along.

ML/NJ

In the three part image of Gorilla, Neanderthal skulls - the image with the gorilla head does NOT show a gorilla skull.

This is what a Gorilla skull looks like - note the sagital crest, laking in both your posted image and in Neanderthals.

The whole of the Danny Vendramini premise is based on a fallacy, and further compounded by assumptions.

Eight inches of fur? Why not seven or eight and a quater inches? An assumption based on fur some other animals had. Just a wild guess with no facts.

Neanderthals made flutes which have holes - how did they make the holes if they had no way to drill through items?

Just because something has not been found or recognized does not mean it did not exist.

An ape with a spear who had a much greater crainal capacity than any of us modern types. A so-called ape who hung around for 200,000 years - more than we can say - twice as long, if one includes Homo Heildelbergenis as part of the Neanderthal family.