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Post by maddoctord on Nov 25, 2008 8:21:50 GMT -5
Something caught my attention when I was doing my Anthropology assignment last night, and that is the nature of the Neanderthals.
There's a lot of hustle and bustle going aboot, and since you've been Planetary Prince for a few hundred thousand years, I was hoping that you might be able to enlighten the rest of us a certain something -- the Neanderthal race(?)
I've heard various theories such as them being wiped out or just simply assimilating into the gene pool, but what would the truth be at?
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Post by Caligastia Lanonandek on Nov 25, 2008 14:56:44 GMT -5
The Neanderthal 'evolved' in Cromagnin (with a little help from friends)
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Post by max on Nov 25, 2008 16:06:53 GMT -5
The Neanderthal 'evolved' in Cromagnin (with a little help from friends) They always portrayed Neaderthals as 'grunting cavemen'. Scientists now know they had a gene (same one as ours) that gave them the ability for language. Now we know they loved poetry, sonnets, etc.  |
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Post by Caligastia Lanonandek on Nov 25, 2008 17:06:07 GMT -5
The neanderthal were much smarter than anthropologists give them credit for. Of course, these opinions are coming from grunting scientists  |
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Post by max on Nov 25, 2008 18:59:41 GMT -5
The neanderthal were much smarter than anthropologists give them credit for. Of course, these opinions are coming from grunting scientists ;D ;D ;D Grunting scientists!!!! Tooooooo funny! I was not expecting that in the least! Thanks for a great laugh!! The scientist are having to rewrite most of what they 'thought' about everything now that dna and genetics have come into play... before it was all guesswork. |
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Post by ophello on Nov 25, 2008 19:01:55 GMT -5
The genus "homo" is about a million years old. Our evolutionary path is not as stair-stepped as it might seem.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2008 21:56:02 GMT -5
I read somewhere a theory that the remnants of the Neanderthal are within the red-haired gene that is predominant among the Irish, Scots (Picts), etc.
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Post by Caligastia Lanonandek on Nov 26, 2008 16:04:53 GMT -5
I'm sure that thought will thrill the celts
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Post by Caligastia Lanonandek on Nov 29, 2008 1:40:45 GMT -5
Some years ago, I saw a educational channel bit about the development of man. An Anthropologist developed evidence that man had been here 1 million years and he was driven from his profession for being right.
Something to think on.
During the 50's - Jonas Salk was excoriated by the medical community for developing the vaccine for polo. He managed to endure - he also was right and saved millions of lives.
The wisdom of a moment can frequently become the idiocy of the future.
The wonders of 20/20 hindsight.
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