Are we ALL neanderthals?

The Daily Mail ^ | 15th September 2006 | MICHAEL HANLON

[Sam Cree]

[beyond the sea]

Maybe Joey Porter............

Have fun with this Martin.

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Start a thread.......... it's got some meat.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/wtae/20060920/lo_wtae/9896141

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[jimmyray]

Whole point being that eventually all will acknowledge that Neanderthals are as much human as you or I, they are not another genus. So much for the CERTAIN proclamations that they were an extinct evolutionary branch of homo. Our silly skull reconstructions are so eurocentric as to exclude other skull shapes from other areas of the world. You whould see some of the headshapes from the backwoods in L.A.!

[blam]

The Singing Neanderthals (The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body)

[mountainlyons]

They showed no improvement in tools and culture after 250,000 years according to science channel so I think they were just apes. DNA shows that they were related to no other creature on earth so where does this cousin stuff come from? They were not related to humans.

[alloysteel]

Neanderthals had evolved beyond simply dragging their knuckles on the ground. So being called a "Neanderthal" is actually a tad less derogatory than being called a "Knuckle-dragger".

Less derogatory = complimentary.

What the heck, I'll take what I can get.

[blam]

Redheads 'Are Neanderthals'

"RED hair may be the genetic legacy of Neanderthals, scientists believe."

"Researchers at the John Radcliffe Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford say that the so-called “ginger gene” which gives people red hair, fair skin and freckles could be up to 100,000 years old."

"They claim that their discovery points to the gene having originated in Neanderthal man who lived in Europe for 200,000 years before Homo sapien settlers, the ancestors of modern man, arrived from Africa about 40,000 years ago."

[blam]

There Is A Little Neanderthal In A Lot Of Us

[To Hell With Poverty]

Cool! Sounds like a fascinating read. I wonder which part of the brain controls our response to music...perhaps one of those areas which was larger in the Neanderthals, and music had a stronger role in their communication than spoken language or visual symbols?
</wild speculation> ;)

[brytlea]

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[martin_fierro]

Was in a restaurant in Palo Alto yesterday that actually had mango salsa on the menu.

[Coyoteman]

Thank you for that kind, gracious ===> Placemarker <===!! LOL

I am back from a meeting and I found my place in this thread easily. That why I use placemarkers.

And, now, on with the thread...

[Coyoteman]

Whole point being that eventually all will acknowledge that Neanderthals are as much human as you or I, they are not another genus. So much for the CERTAIN proclamations that they were an extinct evolutionary branch of homo. Our silly skull reconstructions are so eurocentric as to exclude other skull shapes from other areas of the world. You whould see some of the headshapes from the backwoods in L.A.!

Check out the mtDNA results.

[mountainlyons]

I read an article that said the DNA of neanderthals was different and not related to any creature on earth. Does this "researcher" have the DNA proof about redheads? It would be interesting to compare DNA in unrelated species.

[PatrickHenry]

Interest?

Thanks, but I have to pass.

[Felis_irritable]

you scare me boy...

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

There are a lot of errors and outright BS in this article.
Perhaps the worst, Neanderthal brains were smaller, NOT bigger than Homo Sapiens Sapiens (modern Man). The Cro Magnon skulls were a little bit bigger, but then they're classified as modern Man, similar to the Scandinavian people. After several investigations, it has been decisively concluded that Homo Sapiens Neandertalis and Homo Sapiens Sapiens share NO DNA, and therefore we are not their descendants!

[pleikumud]

Neanderthals are the ones who failed to make the cut, to join the homo sapiens genetic team. Some of their ancestors survived though, to become socialists, terrorists, demagogues, nazis, and Democrats.

[blam]

"I read an article that said the DNA of neanderthals was different and not related to any creature on earth. Does this "researcher" have the DNA proof about redheads? It would be interesting to compare DNA in unrelated species."

Go here for many articles on Neanderthals. Read them and you'll know more than me.(ahem)