Neanderthals Not Totally Extinct

[Bar Sinister]

Apparently those of Europeans ancestry have about one to four percent Neanderthal DNA. Now if someone says "Stop acting like a Neanderthal," those with Neanderthal ancestry can claim that they are only acting in character. That certainly explains the way I act.

Neanderthal DNA survives in modern humans

 

[karrie]

As I said when my anthro friend posted this in the morning....

"this explains my husband"

*snerk*

 

[Colpy]

So that's where I got that overly prominent brow ridge.........

 

[Cliffy]

So that's where I got that overly prominent brow ridge.........

Does that make you a high brow?

I don't. I must be a one percenter.

 

[Machjo]

That explains the scrape marks on my knuckles.

 

[YukonJack]

It would be tempting to liken and compare some posters here to Neanderthals, but it would be disrespectful of the dead.

 

[JLM]

Apparently those of Europeans ancestry have about one to four percent Neanderthal DNA. Now if someone says "Stop acting like a Neanderthal," those with Neanderthal ancestry can claim that they are only acting in character. That certainly explains the way I act.

Neanderthal DNA survives in modern humans

I heard the same thing on C.B.C. this morning. There may be a couple of them on the forum...........................:lol::lol:

 

[JLM]

It would be tempting to liken and compare some posters here to Neanderthals, but it would be disrespectful of the dead.

No need to confess..........................:lol::lol::lol:

 

[YukonJack]

Check out some of the books by Canadian Author Robert Sawyer.

Might be especially interesting to those living in the Sudbury area.

Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: BOOKS Index

 

[El Barto]

Has anyone seen the movie the 13th warrior?
very few people know that that story was taken from journals that really exsists .
the book was formally know as Eater of the Dead.
The discription of the tribe that was attacking the scandanavin village resembled alot like neanderthals.
This story takes place in the 900's

 

[taxslave]

In B.C. we call them NDPers.

 

[bill barilko]

People think it's funny to stereotype Neandertals as low class brutes/losers but in fact they had music, art and culture.

They may even have had advanced mathematics

 

[#juan]

One of my neighbors looks exactly like the "Iceman". He doesn't drag his knuckles but he could with very little effort. The man is very well spoken and is an interesting guy to talk to. He says he took all the ribbing when he was a kid and it doesn't bother him any more. He says he is thankful neither of his kids look kike him.

 

[AnnaG]

So that's where I got that overly prominent brow ridge.........

And depressed sagittal crest. lol

 

[AnnaG]

Has anyone seen the movie the 13th warrior?
very few people know that that story was taken from journals that really exsists .
the book was formally know as Eater of the Dead.
The discription of the tribe that was attacking the scandanavin village resembled alot like neanderthals.
This story takes place in the 900's

Yup. Pretty neat show, I thought. Hollywood, as usual, though, took a few liberties with the facts.

 

[AnnaG]

In B.C. we call them NDPers.

Nooooooooooooo. Those are the pointy headed ones. The Glibs are the flatheads, no-necker, one-eyebrowed types.

 

[AnnaG]

People think it's funny to stereotype Neandertals as low class brutes/losers but in fact they had music, art and culture.

Australopithecus had those before Neanderthals. So?

They may even have had advanced mathematics

It's an hypothesis, yes. People can drive cars without understanding how engines work, though. Sophisticated brain functions have been evolving for thousands of thousands of years and are still evolving so it is unlikely that those people had the same intelligence we do.

 

[lone wolf]

I think some of them might even post here....

 

[AnnaG]

I think some of them might even post here....

I thought that was too obvious to post. lol

 

[Bar Sinister]

In B.C. we call them NDPers.

That is interesting, because in the rest of Canada we call them conservatives.