"Maybe next time do a little research."
Posted on 07/29/2011 5:52:01 PM PDT by chessplayer
Neanderthals died out in Western Europe after a surge of modern humans arrived from Africa and made them a minority in their own land, researchers claim.
The swarm of Homo sapiens onto the continent more than 40,000 years ago left the Neanderthals, who had thrived in the frigid conditions for 300 millennia, outnumbered by a massive 10 to one.
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I’m thinking the neanderthals were Dimocrats.
"Maybe next time do a little research."
Homos killed Neandros ping....also a cool Beavis & Butthead cartoon in the thread
“There is also a school of thought that says they were fully human...with rickets.”
Please provide a source. As I understand it, this “school of thought” stems from a certain learned Dr. Virchow — who died in 1902! — and is based on his comments made over forty years before that when the first scant few Neanderthal remains were discovered in 1856. My 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica states that the “rickets” theory was exploded in the following years when more fossil material was discovered, showing that the Neanderthal body type was characteristic and not the result of disease. Besides, rickets wouldn’t produce the robust bone structure and brow ridges. To put it gently, this “rickets” idea to explain Neanderthals was already long obsolete a hundred years ago when the Britannica dismissed it.
This is a good read on the subject as well.
http://news.discovery.com/human/genetics-neanderthal-110718.html
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