High notes of the singing Neanderthals

http://www.timesonline.co.uk ^ | 01/30/05 | Jonathan Leake

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Far Side and In The Bleachers are my two favorite cartoons. I could go on and on about those two. Have you seen the In The Bleachers cartoons? Always sports related and funny.

[Verginius Rufus]

I have occasionally seen In the Bleachers. Speaking of sports-related strips, sometimes Tank McNamara can be pretty funny but the strip doesn't seem to be very popular.

[quietolong]

London - Red hair may be the genetic legacy of Neanderthals...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1322006/posts

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

send me an example of the tank comic or a link. Thanks.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

LOL!

[Verginius Rufus]

Tank is available at: www.ucomics.com/tankmcnamara

To look at an older strip add the date:
www.ucomics.com/tankmcnamara/2005/01/29/ for last Saturday's, for example.

I used to check Tank and other comics at the Washington Post website (at least the ComPost was good for something) until they started requiring registration.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

use www.bugmenot.com for a free log in code if you want to bypass the registration process. Works great and you can remain anonymous.

[ValerieUSA]

I was going to post this article, but did a search first and found it.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1462226,00.html

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Val!

The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve

Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]

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[Renfield]

"....deeply emotional beings with high-pitched voices. They may even have sung to each other,
Sounds like they were the first metrosexuals..."

Well, not necessarily, but I bet the could have done Al Green.....

[lizma]

CREATIVITY IN NEANDERTHALS

[nopardons]

bttt

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[uglybiker]

[Happygal]

Neanderthal voices were loud, womanly and probably highly melodic

There goes Broadway! ;-)

[muir_redwoods]

bump

[Drammach]

God Bless Tiny Tim..

[SunkenCiv]

Prehistoric Ireland
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~cd200/mac34.html

The Neanderthals (Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis):

As the ice cap receded across Europe, the high pressure and motion of the ice left behind a layer of powdered stone. This formed an extremely fertile soil, which soon became a vast and fertile grassland. There was an explosion of animal life into this vacuum, which was soon covered with thundering herds of Mammoths, Giant Deer, Bison, and other ungulates. Cave dwelling Neanderthal Man, the heavy set "cave men" of cartoons and comics, was quickly replaced by modern man, and seems to vanish from the record about 34,000 B.C.

We have had such sport lampooning Neanderthal Man, that we tend to forget he was the first known Homo Sapiens. We acknowledge that he is more powerfully built than modern man, but it has recently been shown that he may have been more fleet of foot. For example, he is far better equiped to run sideways than are we - something which may have been very useful during a hunt. We now suspect, from examining tombs, that he was a spiritual being, and more embarrassingly, he had a larger brain than we do.

We may owe more to Neanderthal man and to his Mousterian culture than previously realized. When a Mousterian flute was discovered in the Divje Babe I cave in northwestern Slovenia, a musicologist (Bob Fink) in Saskatchawan, Canada published a study based on spacing of the holes in the bone instrument. Fink maintains that it was tuned to the Diatonic scale, and that our present day ideas of what is musical, may be handed down from our cave dwelling cousins.

There are many theories about the disappearance of Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis , but it is unknown whether he interbred and disappeared, or was killed off by his modern cousins. It is also unknown why he did not adapt to the changing climate, and come to dominate the grasslands.

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