"Stupid" Neandertal upgraded

[Rokcet Scientist]

He wasn't pretty, but he wasn't as stupid as he looked either.

In what could possibly be a major blow to a scientific consensus that has held for decades, recent research suggests that the traditional conception of Neandertals being "stupider" than Homo sapiens may in fact be misleading. As articles about the research findings state, 'early stone tool technologies developed by our species, Homo sapiens, were no more efficient than those used by Neandertals.' The data used in the study is available on-line along with a visual description of the process used.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 203924.htm

http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Stone-me--h ... 4424738.jp

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... 605164.ece

http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2008/08/re ... hannellink

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 08628.html

http://www.thinkcomputer.com/research/index.html

[Ishtar]

In what could possibly be a major blow to a scientific consensus that has held for decades, recent research suggests that the traditional conception of Neanderthals being "stupider" than Homo sapiens may in fact be misleading.

Hooray! Science finally catches up!

[Minimalist]

I could swear I used to work for that guy.

[Ishtar]

Yeah... I wondered what had happened to that particular ex-husband.

[Sam Salmon]

He has a kind face and a courtly manner-needs a new barber though.

[pattylt]

He kinda looks like my uncle Bernie, if he would put a yarmulke on.

He actually looks very sweet!

[Minimalist]

[img][img]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y108/rschilla/HN.jpg[/img][/img]


Bernie? That you??

[pattylt]

OMG, that's him!

Wonder why the artist trimmed his whiskers on his face but not his neck? Isn't the neck where a beard is itchiest?

[clubs_stink]

Neanderthal stock is on the rise. A slew of recent studies have argued that the not-quite modern humans hunted, painted and communicated like their Homo sapiens cousins. Now new research suggests that Neanderthal technology was at least as good as that of early humans.

HA!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... tools.html

[Rokcet Scientist]

OMG, that's him!

Wonder why the artist trimmed his whiskers on his face but not his neck? Isn't the neck where a beard is itchiest?

Only when it's (very) short, patty. If it is long (enough) hair is soft.
Which is one reason why many people shaving their pubic hair need to repeat that every (other) day, for instance....

[Ishtar]

OMG, that's him!

Wonder why the artist trimmed his whiskers on his face but not his neck? Isn't the neck where a beard is itchiest?

Only when it's (very) short, patty. If it is long (enough) hair is soft.
Which is one reason why many people shaving their pubic hair need to repeat that every (other) day, for instance....

Is that from personal experience, RS?

[Digit]

You've let me down Ish! I thought we were all going to show restraint and not enquire.
Dying to know though!

Roy.

[Ishtar]

Well, Dig .. his knowledge on it seems so detailed.

[Digit]

Yeah! Can't beat asking an expert can you?

Roy.

[Minimalist]

The rehabilitation of HNS continues!

http://www.livescience.com/history/0809 ... kulls.html

Score one more for Neanderthals.

A new study has found that Neanderthal brains grew at much the same rate as modern human brains do, knocking down the idea that they grew faster in a style considered more primitive.

The recent discoveries of two very young Neanderthal skeletons, as well analysis of a little-studied infant Neanderthal skeleton, allowed the researchers to trace how quickly the species' skulls grew.

The results showed a greater similarity than expected between modern humans and Neanderthals, a hominid species that lived in Europe and Asia between 130,000 and 30,000 years ago.