Neanderthals Sang Like Sopranos

ABC Science News ^ | 3-15-2005 | Jennifer Viegas

[Salamander]

Thanks.
I'll be humming that song in my head all night now....:-P

[I still care]

Why did I keep thinking of Howard Bannister and his igneous rocks as I read this?

"What's up Doc" is the absolute only thing I will break my strick No Streisand rule to watch.

[VadeRetro]

Jeez! If the guy on the right ain't Neanderthal there never was no f**kin' Neanderthal! Right, Roberto?

[My GOP]

Man was CREATED in God's image. I didn't evolve from anything.

[VadeRetro]

I heard you started as a single-cell zygote. But that could be just rumor.

[My GOP]

You know what I meant smart aleck.

[Mike Darancette]

Neanderthals spoke in a high-pitched, sing-song voice

When Modern man came along and heard the Neanderthals they laughed so loud and long the Neanderthals died out from shame.

[Mike Darancette]

What a haunting picture.

[blam]

"What a haunting picture."

Yup. I always thought so too.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[SunkenCiv]

No. Nope. Never. There has been no such DNA comparison.

There was a (so-called) study of some mitochondrial DNA (iow, not DNA from the cell nucleus, the kind that gives us hair color and everything else) said to be from a sample Homo Heidelbergensis (believed to have been a forerunner of the Neandertal) and not, say, from bacteria which reproduced like wild as it munched the then-recently deceased bones.

The comparison was of fewer than 400 base pairs, out of a presumed original 16,000+ base pairs such as are found in the mtDNA of living humans.

So, the study was bogus -- a tiny sample of broken DNA bits, patched in wherever the researchers pleased. The conclusions fit the original assumptions, and the Replacement advocates were happy with that.

In addition, even if one accepts the assumptions of mtDNA studies, there's no reason to believe that living matches for the 387 (or whatever the number was) base pairs could not be found.

[robertpaulsen]

Pretty funny, in that he delivered that line to Silvio Dante (Steve Van Zandt).

[blam]

Thanks, I didn't know that. I thought it was a 'done deal.'

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

Yes, we helped kill them off with the common cold. They probably inhaled the germs while taking a deep breath before the next aria.

[SunkenCiv]

[blush] oh, stop. ;')

[SunkenCiv]

;'D

[TASMANIANRED]

My theory is that Neanderthals sang hip hop and rap and had a gangsta culture.

They wiped each other out in a gang war.

[Modernman]

But the "eden" was not a "real" place so much as a "real" happy ignorance of evil, until Something (don't know what) happened, symbolized by the Apple, caused Man to become irretrievably, perhaps even genetically, evil.

The agricultural revolution. Once man settled down and our population increased, land took on value and wars were fought over it. Hunter-gatherers, on the other hand, could simply decamp and walk to the next valley over, so there was less risk of conflict.