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Some interesting observations:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0890512388/
Buried Alive: The Startling Truth About Neanderthal Man
by Jack Cuozzo
Anyone who has met my ex mother-in-law would know that the Neanderthal species is still alive
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What, no GEICO cavemen pictures??
That show is pretty funny BTW. I was surprised at how lowkey the humor is and very very dry wit. But some really funny references/jokes for thirty something’s.
The Neandertal EnigmaFrayer'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]
by James Shreeve
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Or, more likely, are their descendants still here among us?
(A) ACROMEGALY.
Acromegaly, like oversized dentition, is a proper function of growth hormone at an improper time or in an abnormal amount. When acromegaly occurs in our age, it is the abnormal, but it may have been the normal in the earlier age. When it occurs in our age, the lower jaw begins to expand, becomes prognathous, and overrides the upper jaw. The dentition becomes more widely spaced. The posture sags as the clavicle thickens. The supraorbital ridges expand and the eyebrows protrude. The zygomatic arches thicken. The temporo-mandibular joint and cranium expand. The vertebrae thicken, as do the metacarpals and meta-tarsals (fingers and toes). In addition to skeletal changes, the hair coarsens, metabolism changes, and the psychology of the person may change although the intellectual powers may remain acute. The basic genetic material has not changed. There has been no transmutation of species, as Darwinians intuitively assert.
It very easily can be demonstrated that twentieth century men, possessing no apelike genes, may— due to a certain type of endocrine disorder—develop “apelike” characteristics in their skin, hair, metabolism, and skeletal system. This is known as acromegaly. Itis caused by the abnormal resumption of growth hormone after maturation. A reactivation of this particular function of the pituitary gland—the master gland—causes renewed bone growth. Since at maturation the epiphyses close (the bones fuse), they can no longer elongate and therefore must grow by thickening. The cause of acromegaly is not well understood, but malfunctions in pituitary tissues may be one cause. Today, this skeletal malformation occurs in about one person in 10,000, in males and females in equal ratios, and usually in persons in their twenties and thirties—about one or two decades after maturation.
The description of a person afflicted with acromegaly sounds like a description of Neanderthal Man, and the changes are not merely limited to skeletal malformations.
In the following excerpts from medical textbooks, there are similarities of the descriptions with Apemen. Since acromegaly is considered a basic physiological imbalance, it is medically classified as a retrogressive development. Here is a case which the medical profession describes as retrogression, a case strikingly similar to what Darwinists term evolution:
As in many endocrine types, there is considerable resemblance among all acromegalics. The large extremities, awkward movements, thickened features, and drooping shoulders with hands falling near the knees in advanced cases, give the picture of Simian (apelike) man, and where gigantism has preceded the acromegalic changes, of a primitive ape-like giant. Great strength, however, may give place to exhaustion and weakness in the later stages ...
The skull is considerably thickened, the ridges becoming very prominent, and the external occipital protuberance enlarged. The cranial sutures may be obliterated. Even more marked are the changes of the facial bones: thickening and enlargement of the zygomatic arches, of the malar bones, and especially of the lower jaw, which becomes prognathous through overgrowth and also through changes in the temporo-manibular joint. The teeth become spaced wide apart as the jaw increases in width. The clavicles are thickened, and the antero-posterior diameter of the chest is greatly increased...20
The patient with fully developed disease presents a striking appearance which, when once seen, is never forgotten. The hands become large due to a broadening and thickening of the fingers and palms, so that they assume a “spade-like” appearance. They feel stiff and clench with some difficulty. The facial features coarsen, the lips thicken, while the nose becomes large and bulbous. The head increases in size and the supraorbital ridges become prominent and overhanging. There occurs a protrusion of the lower jaw, the so-called “prognathism,” due essentially to thickening and overgrowth of the mandible. As a result, the teeth become widely spaced and override the upper dentition . . . The patients frequently stoop due to kyphosis associated with enlargement and thickening of the vertebrae . . . They are sullen and vacillating, although mentally quite alert and normally endowed.21
Post-Darwinian evolutionists have assumed and taught that Neanderthal proportions are due to some admixture or transmutation of apelike genes. They have further assumed and taught that these proportions, formed by some transmuted ape genes, have been modified by some as yet unascertained biochemical mechanism. But Neanderthal Man is an excellent parallel to the modern description of acromegaly.22
http://www.creationism.org/patten/PattenBiblFlood/PattenBiblFlood10.htm
That behavior makes even the Helen Thomas pictures look respectable.
It’s the GEICO effect; coming to the forefront.
"Go ahead; CALL me stupid - but I'VE got a Nobel, and YOU don't!"