As different as Neanderthals were, they may not have been different enough to be considered a separate species. "There are humans today who are more different from each other in phenotype [physical characteristics]," says John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin.
I am really finding Hawks to be the best leader on this whole subject. The guy simply makes sense.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Not only has the tool technology associated with Cro Magnon now been re allocated to HSN so have some of the cave paintings.
The 'Great Awakening', now looks less certain.
Roy.
First people deny a thing, then they belittle it, then they say it was known all along! Von Humboldt
Well uniface it will come as no surprise to my regular readers!!! that I question that as well, but with reason.
I am aware that the stocky build associated with HSN is associated with cold climes, the Inuit, but so it is with the great apes!
Darwin, in his account of the voyage of the Beagle recounts a landfall in Tierra Del Fuego, he recounts a party held with the Fuegans with the crew sitting muffled against the snow around a blazing fire with the Fuegans sitting well back from the heat and sweating as the snow melted on their naked bodies!
These people did not show any physical adaptions to the cold.
Roy.
First people deny a thing, then they belittle it, then they say it was known all along! Von Humboldt
Interesting article. However, the part about the Neanderthal diet directly contradicts most of what has been "established" about what HN ate.
Supposedly, isotope testing on HN's teeth have shown their diet to be mostly, if not all, meat based. So, who's fudging the data? (i.e. lying)
No-one can agree on even small points, let alone the larger picture, so who does one trust when you are a mere observer and dependent upon
others for the data?
"Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test." ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
"Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer." ~ Alexander Pope
WASHINGTON (Reuters) Neanderthals feasted on meat, meat and more meat, researchers said Monday in a report that adds to a growing body of evidence that they were skilled hunters and not grunting, witless cave men, as they are often portrayed.
Chemical analyses of bones found in caves in Croatia showed Neanderthals ate a diet similar to that of wolves and lions, and probably hunted woolly mammoths, the researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Our findings provide conclusive proof that European Neanderthals were top-level carnivores, who lived on a diet of mainly hunted animal meat," said Fred Smith, chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University.
But I can't answer your question because I am right down there in the trenches with you.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
that I question that as well, but with reason.
