Big chill killed off the Neanderthals

New Scientist ^ | 24 January 2004 | Douglas Palmer

[buffyt]

Hey, my hair used to be red, when it still had color in it! LOL

[Izzy Dunne]

I read today that the climate on Mars is changing....

I read that too. It's all the rovers we're sending up there, I tellya.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Prehistory is mostly conjecture and SWAG and scientists refuse to admit it. The amount of fossil material of early man would not fill my hall closet. Yet an archaeologist will look a molar and tell you about the owner's social life. It is beyond funny to me.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Exactly. We did not invite them and actually tossed big rocks at them frequently

[Protagoras]

Bush doesn't care about Neanderthal people.

You know it's a losing position when the liberals start squabbling among themselves about it.

A lefty columnist who gets equal time in the Investors Business Daily editorial page was defending Bush today on this racial point. While basically saying Bush was an idiot (all the while claiming it wasn't quite true) he said that he was not a racist and was a truly compassionate man. The semi intelligent liberals are running from this goofy theme as fast as they can.

[Flint]

George, Who had all those thermometers 40,000 years ago to get the exact temperature in various locations? And, how and where was the data recorded?

[Protagoras]

I agree with your first point, they still exist. I ride the train with some of them every day.

[NormB]

You know this is true. Everytime I see a cave man on TV they always have no clothes on to speak of.
The slightest chill and BAM they are going to catch a cold.

[siunevada]

From reading this one would think that maybe the Earth's climate has varied throughout history, even before Jan 20, 2001 when President Bush was inaugurated.

I think all the bad stuff following "Let there be light" is still his responsibility, isn't it? TV tells me it is so, it must be true.

[MeanWestTexan]

". . . I'm surprised they haven't jumped on this thread, denouncing the whole notion of Neanderthals being our 'relatives'..."

By most currenet thinking, homo sapein neatherthalis (I think that is the right name) and homo sapien sapiens have only a fairly distant ancestor in common --- different family tree branch, so to speak --- so they'd probably be close to right.

That said, the graves of Neaderthals, indicating intentional burial, replete with jewelry and weapons left with the dead, certainly indicate they had something going on upstairs more than the average ape man.

[Old Professer]

And, I'll bet the last member was heard to say with his dying gasp, "Whose bright idea was it to leave paradise?..."

[Old Professer]

Humanity is reserved for the upper-classes; books are just another weapon.

[chesley]

Nah! They had a communist economy. It couldn't cope with the stress of the harsher winters. The Cro-Magnon men sent food packages and technological assistance, but the lack of infrastructure and functioning institutions killed off the Neanderthals.

Sarcasm?? Possibly not.

[wolfcreek]

Me thinks they were assimilated.

[uncitizen]

huh. I coulda sworn it was global warming.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I see them too. I believe they are everywhere. My wife says I look like modern man but act Neanderthal. She means that as a compliment referring to my total lack of metrosexuality.

[Mike Darancette]

What about the Neanderthals that lived in the Near East?

[RoadTest]

Dear mic9852; I noticed that, too - that scientists keep changing their minds.
It's like they keep on being wrong all the time.

The Bible calls it "Science, falsely so-called". (1 Tim. 6:20)

[mlc9852]

I just wonder how we will ever know if they are right???