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Neanderthals 'Had Hands Like Ours'
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| 3-27-2003
| Helen Briggs
Posted on 03/27/2003 3:07:42 PM PST by blam
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We are Neanderthals.
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posted on
03/27/2003 3:07:42 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
French are cross between neanderthals and apes!
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posted on
03/27/2003 3:10:50 PM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(chIRAQ & sadDAM are bedfellows & clinton is a raping traitor!)
To: blam
Earlier evidence had suggested that our ancestors triumphed over their more primitive cousins because they were better at DIY. Psssst. They were better at SEX.
To: blam
I had a boyfriend some years ago that had hands like a Neanderthal!
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posted on
03/27/2003 3:12:24 PM PST
by
Mears
To: blam
As evidenced by Clinton's hairy palms
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posted on
03/27/2003 3:12:42 PM PST
by
amused
(Republicans for Sharpton!)
To: gov_bean_ counter
If the women don't find you handsome, at least they should fined you handy!
To: TenthAmendmentChampion
fined = find
To: blam
Neanderthals 'had hands like ours'Yes! But could they pronate their wrists after hitting a lob wedge eighty yards under the overhanging branches of a weeping willow and land the ball less than six feet from the pin?....I don't think so.
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posted on
03/27/2003 3:16:55 PM PST
by
scouse
To: TenthAmendmentChampion
Don't anybody ask for a show of hands?
To: gov_bean_ counter
?=!
To: blam
Anyone who's read "Clan Of The Cave Bear" knows this ;)
To: blam
To: blam
"Neanderthals 'had hands like ours'"
This is true.
Many times on the Subway Neanderthals have given me a finger.
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posted on
03/27/2003 3:23:49 PM PST
by
APBaer
To: blam
Duh. I'm not surprised. I always thought the neanderthals were victims of "species-cide" by modern man.
To: TenthAmendmentChampion
Don't you just love Red Green! Especially the duct tape thing.
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posted on
03/27/2003 3:48:00 PM PST
by
sneakers
To: sneakers
Yeah, my son loves it. It's one of the few good shows from Canada since SCTV went off the air. But the older shows were better (Red used to read poetry: one segment was called The Winter of Our Discount Tent.) I wish they would air the old shows. Good to see Red's nephew Harold back on the new series, though.
To: scouse
Yes! But could they pronate their wrists after hitting a lob wedge eighty yards under the overhanging branches of a weeping willow and land the ball less than six feet from the pin?....I don't think so. But can you drive the ball 500 yards off the tee because you have been wrestling wolly mammoths since you were five?
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posted on
03/27/2003 3:52:32 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(France: The whore for Babylon)
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
My husband (although still quite handsome) has a sloped forehead and long arms. I often wonder if someone were to find our skeletal remains in a few hundred years if they would think that someone had buried a Neanderthal in a casket.
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posted on
03/27/2003 3:55:01 PM PST
by
HungarianGypsy
(Are we really arrogant? Or are they just jealous of us?)
To: blam
However, computer reconstructions of fossilised bones show their hands had almost the same manual dexterity as ours.
The idea of Neanderthals as slow-moving, dim-witted, hulking folk came from the study of the first skeletons which were of individuals who had suffered from arthritis; the specious 19th century view of evolution as being progress toward perfection didn't help matters either.
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posted on
03/27/2003 3:55:18 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: blam
It's more likely that their culture did them in. Neanderthals were slow to adopt new ideas and new technologies. This is evidenced by their stone tools. They stuck to the same tool designs for thousands of years. It wasn't until modern humans arrived that they started to toy with new designs. It's probably a fair guess that they didn't change other aspects of their culture either. This would have posed a problem if the environment changed too rapidly.
Rapid change could have resulted from the activities of the modern humans. In particular, the moderns probably used fire to alter the environment. Many hunter-gatherers burn off undesireable plants to allow more valuable plants to thrive. For example, here in Southern California, the Indians were all hunter-gatherers. They burned off the chapparel to allow sagebrush to grow. They then collected the sage seeds to grind into meal. This destroyed habitat for some animals and created it for others. Any species depending on the previous mix of game animals would suffer as a result of the change. Modern Humans changing the environment through fire in Europe and the Middle East would have affected the Neanderthals, but the Neanderthals were loathe to change their habits to adapt; even though they had the physical and intellectual ability to do so.
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posted on
03/27/2003 4:21:52 PM PST
by
Redcloak
(All work and no FReep makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no FReep make s Jack a dul boy. Allwork an)
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