To: brytlea
Is it my imagination, or do the pictures of neandertals today look more like us than they did years ago? I wonder if this is based on new evidence or what?
susie I think you're right.
Early drawings of Neanderthal depicted a slouched-over, crude individual largely because the first Neanderthal found was suffering from severe arthritis. This image got into the popular literature and supported the "cave man" image for a century.
It is only in the last decades that this incorrect portrayal in the popular literature is being corrected.
17 posted on
10/28/2007 4:43:42 PM PDT by
Coyoteman
(Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
To: Coyoteman
Kind of like the brontosaurus head (I forget what they now call it anyway, apatosaurus?) Thanks, that makes sense.
susie
33 posted on
10/28/2007 6:07:24 PM PDT by
brytlea
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