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Neanderthals may have been wiped out due to INTERBREEDING and not because of a lack of intelligence
Daily Mail ^ | 29 April 2014 | JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN

Posted on 04/29/2014 6:49:50 PM PDT by Fractal Trader

They are often depicted as dim-witted evolutionary losers, but Neanderthals were not driven to extinction by their lack of brains, a new study suggests.

Instead, it is more likely that they disappeared 40,000 years ago because of interbreeding and assimilation with our early modern human ancestors, scientists believe.

An analysis of archaeological evidence dating back 200,000 years strips away some of the myths surrounding Neanderthals and reveals they were more advanced and sophisticated than has widely been thought. Why did Neanderthals go extinct? It's often thought their lack of intelligent ultimately led to their demise, but new research suggests it may instead have been due to interbreeding and assimilation with our early modern human ancestors

Why did Neanderthals go extinct? It's often thought their lack of intelligent ultimately led to their demise, but new research suggests it may instead have been due to interbreeding and assimilation with our early modern human ancestors

The differences between the two human sub-species are not enough on their own to account for the demise of the Neanderthals, say the two US and Dutch researchers.

Dr Paola Villa, from the University of Colorado Museum, and Professor Wil Roebroeks, from Leiden University, wrote in the online journal Public Library of Science ONE: 'Genetic studies now suggest that the debate on the demise of the Neanderthals needs to be reframed in terms of some degree of interbreeding.

'In that sense, Neanderthals did not go extinct, even though their distinctive morphology did disappear.

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To: Bobalu

my understanding is that what is more important for intelligence is not the size of the brain, per se, but the number of folds on the surface.

men and women are driven by and obsessive about different things. the thought processes for the two genders are entirely different. both genders, however, are capable of deeply-flawed, self-destructive behavior. one of the huge problems in the culture right now is that we’re looking at male behavioral flaws and congratulating ourselves that women don’t display them. the larger, and more appropriate, question is what behavioral flaws are innate to the female gender.


101 posted on 04/30/2014 7:10:50 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: Mr. Blond

Not teleported. The two authors use the term ‘splash saltation’ to indicate animals (including humans) and plant life being carried across bodies in the ancient system by the vortices of the ancient Birkeland currents which existed between the bodies in those times. At least that’s one possibility. More interesting is the claim they make about the relationship between Cro Magnon man and the antediluvian people of the Bible, and the reason for the huge gap in those two cultures and technologies.


102 posted on 04/30/2014 7:58:51 AM PDT by varmintman
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To: blam

You can repeat that outmoded garbage until the cows come home, it will never be true.


103 posted on 04/30/2014 8:01:11 AM PDT by varmintman
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To: varmintman

Ted, take your medication.


104 posted on 04/30/2014 8:35:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: gleeaikin

Neanderthal Women Joined Men in the Hunt
(Eat your heart out, feminists)
The New York Times | December 5, 2006 | NICHOLAS WADE
Posted on 12/7/2006 8:42:12 AM by DaveLoneRanger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1749820/posts


105 posted on 04/30/2014 8:36:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Have you noticed that when we grew up that those who were going to take themselves out the gene pool were pretty evident.

Aside from the fact that mankind took a rather dim view of those outside of the Clan and took harsh measures against them.

They also took a rather harsh view of those that did not conform to the norm with in the Clan. We have lost that.

Unless the woman was smoking hot I think that the inter breeder had a life that was Nasty, Brutish, and Short along with the members of her family, tribe, and collateral relatives.

106 posted on 04/30/2014 8:54:27 AM PDT by Little Bill (EVICT Queen Jean)
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To: cloudmountain
"I had my DNA tested also. "

If you don't know what is your haplogroup then you wasted your money.(IMO)

107 posted on 04/30/2014 9:31:37 AM PDT by blam
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To: cloudmountain
The 8% was from my mother. She didn't have a clue but it might explain why I like rice so much. :o)

Heh. Yeah... I'm 99% Northern European/British Isles (this includes the Neanderthal) but we found a 1% Sub-saharan explanation for my butt.

108 posted on 04/30/2014 7:44:39 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady; All

I have always been of the opinion that my late husband of Scots ancestry had significant Neanderthal genetics. He was massive boned, short legged, long torsoed, very muscular, red hair and light blue eyes, very hairy all over including his shoulder, weak chin, faint brow ridges, quick temper and warrior mentality. He also had a mans growth at age 13. What traits do you have that you felt made you part cavewoman?


109 posted on 04/30/2014 11:23:54 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
Some of the same: blue eyes, hair brown but reddish in the sun, long waist, muscular frame, and with a real tendency toward the blunt approach, particularly in romantic matters. (Dragging someone back to the cave by the hair always seemed like a perfectly understandable approach to me.) I'm also a big fan of revenge, and vigilante justice.

My family used to laugh at my tendency to want to fix malfunctioning equipment with a hammer... whatever the problem, beating the crap out of it will either fix it or teach it a lesson, I felt. And I could never open a box of dried goods correctly, or even at the right end. To this day, I cannot operate most technology. It takes me a year to figure out a new cellphone and I am NOT getting a smart phone because I don't need anything in my purse that's smarter than I am.

Now of course, most of this, an anthropology professor would tell you, is not how they'd describe a Neanderthal. But it's how I'd describe a cave man (well, cave woman) and I came to the conclusion in my 20s that I'm part cave woman. Then, as I said, I had my DNA tested and I really do have a higher percentage than the vast majority of humanity. Higher even than the majority of Europeans.

110 posted on 05/01/2014 5:59:14 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Fractal Trader; SunkenCiv

Ummmm. Alley Oop like boning Ayla. Much. Many times.


111 posted on 05/01/2014 9:59:20 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: A_perfect_lady
Heh. Yeah... I'm 99% Northern European/British Isles (this includes the Neanderthal) but we found a 1% Sub-saharan explanation for my butt.

Lol.
Big butts abound throughout this earthly orb. No culture corners the market on them. I lived in the middle east five years and saw SO many humungous butts--LARGE female Arab butts! Wow. I felt like Skinny Minnie and I AIN'T! :O)

112 posted on 05/01/2014 8:22:46 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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