[patton]

I don't understand the discussion. Is there evidence, that the russians do not love their children?

Humans are of the group, that have few children and invest their lives in them.

Would not neanderthal do the same?

[AntiGuv]

The question is whether a human woman would invest her life raising the progeny of a Neandertal man who raped her. I rather doubt it myself.

[SampleMan]

Would not neanderthal do the same?

I would take you back to not putting too much into the fact that the skeletons look a like.

Did Neanderthals love their children? Don't know. Do cows love their calves? They certainly are attached to them for a while, but they don't appear to love them in our sense. They certainly don't raise them with a concept for the future. But my point wasn't that they didn't love them, it was that they might have grown up much faster.

If a person grew up to adult size and reproductive capability in 2 years vice 13-16, then they would be better at fending for themselves physically, but worse mentally.

Why are you assuming that Neanderthals were human? A goose isn't a duck, despite their similarities.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"Humans are of the group, that have few children and invest their lives in them.

Would not neanderthal do the same?"

Maybe they listened to a Neanderthal version of an imam and began to think it was righteous to send their children off to die en mass. Maybe they developed a primitive version of Bushido. I wonder what a Neanderthal banzai charge would look like.

Michael Frazier