Posted on 12/17/2024 5:58:14 AM PST by Red Badger
PinGGG!..........................
Yeah, more like apes?
My Neanderthal ancestors were murder in a genocidal invasion from Africa. Africans owe me reparations for cultural emotional damage they caused
No kidding, ANIMAL man vs mankind made as we know him, in God’s image...
Did they fashion the entire skull models from a piece of cranium about the size of a walnut? That’s the sort of thing they done in the past.
I wonder why they studied a replica, and not the original skull?
I’m no expert on this subject...and I didn’t even stay at a Holiday Inn last night. But it seems to me that they had a lot in common with us...more than we have in common with gorillas or chimps.
And yet they knuckle-drag among us.
So the speciation process continued despite inbreeding.
Creatures that are not the same species, but close, can only produce offspring that are sterile. Horse and donkey=Mule. You ever see a thoroughbred mule?
If you buy garden hybrid garden seeds they produce great crops, but the seeds will not reproduce themselves. There is usually a warning on the package telling you this.
Some people will buy and plant hybrid corn getting a great crop, then plant the seeds and expect the same The stalk may come up but the ear of corn is a failure.
A hypothesis, which many scientists will disagree with.
Very little actual evidence, lots of speculation.
Consider that most dogs, wolves and coyotes are all capable of interbreeding and producing viable offspring which can reproduce. They are all pretty much just variations on one large species.
Yeah, well, it was late on a Saturday night, last call, and the Neanderthals began looking a lot better than they did earlier in the evening.
This is news?
Ah, but which is which?
Went to bed a two with a ten and woke up at ten with a two!.................
Because they probably don’t have an original skull. They have a few fragments which they have used to reconstruct what they claim the “original skull” looked like.
Pretty sure the Neanderthal chicks could just take you, if inclined.
They had bigger brains and were quite a bit stronger.
What they didn’t have is a lot of sexual dimorphism and sex specialization, so they didn’t have very many kids live to adulthood, in comparison.
Professor Chris Stringer, Research Leader at the Natural History Museum and joint author of the paper, says: “In the context of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, we need to regard speciation as a gradual process that occurred over more than 400,000 years. It is correct that the two interbred where they were not geographically separate, but over time differentiation continued to a point where the two were distinctly different species. When the Neanderthals died out around 40,000 years ago, the two species were in the final stage of the speciation process and were developing reproductive isolation from each other.”
If this "occurred over more than 400,000 years", then we're talking about a very gradual amount of speciation (baby steps taking 400K years). If the earth is 4 billion years old, IMHO that doesn't give much time for such slow speciation to evolve goo to human beings.
But on the other hand, the Cambrian Explosion had 50 to 100 new phyla (many of them going extinct) all of a sudden appear in the fossil record within a 400K year timeframe. It's like, natural selection is too slow to do the job. But God can make not just new species, but also new genus and even new phyla appear whenever He darn well feels like it.
Ok... so if Neanderthals were a separate species and every race but blacks has Neanderthal in them.. does that make blacks a different species than all other humans?
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