The website says Andre "suffered from acromegaly, a disease that results in an over abundance of growth hormones". But I gotta wonder if what he really had was an overabundance of Neanderthal DNA.
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| Research shines light on Neanderthals' coexistence with humans |
| 2014-08-22 |
| [FT] Neanderthals coexisted with early modern humans in Europe for up to 5,400 years, according to researchers from Oxford university who used new techniques to pinpoint when the early cousins of Homo sapiens became extinct. Scientists used radiocarbon dating evidence for 200 bone, charcoal and shell samples from 40 European archaeological sites to show that the two human groups overlapped for a significant period of time. They also concluded that Neanderthals disappeared gradually at different times in different locations, rather than undergoing rapid extinction. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Personally I think the Neanderthals went extinct because of the RACISM of the Homo-saps. Better send Al, Jesse, and Holder to investigate. OBumbles can supervise. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-08-22 15:16 |
| #8 i understand that the previous hypothesis was that we, in our evil, speciestic way, wiped them out to the last child upon first meeting, g(r)omgoru And it took a few thousand years. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-08-22 14:24 |
| #7 What gorb said. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-08-22 13:44 |
| #6 then went spontaneously extinct just in time to make place for us? i understand that the previous hypothesis was that we, in our evil, speciestic way, wiped them out to the last child upon first meeting, g(r)omgoru. Though I recall some discussion of the possibility that H. sap's need for 2,000 cal/day made survival easier for us than H. neanderthalis' need for 5,000 or 10,000. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-08-22 13:09 |
| #5 Well of course they co-existed! That did you think---that Neanderthals survived for 300000 years and then went spontaneously extinct just in time to make place for us? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-08-22 11:54 |
| #4 So 'Clan of the Cave Bear' might have been more of a true story... Ayla was unavailable for comment. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-08-22 11:44 |
| #3 The website says Andre "suffered from acromegaly, a disease that results in an over abundance of growth hormones". But I gotta wonder if what he really had was an overabundance of Neanderthal DNA. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-08-22 11:34 |
| #2 I always wondered where the stories about Trolls came from. I also read that trolls were cannibalistic. And that Neanderthals were Estrus breeders and had only rudimentary "families". Whereas Humans bred all year round, while Neanderthals only bred in season, and that males and females often lived apart for much of the year. But you can't always trust what you hear or read. And "science" is always saying something and we know that science said the world was flat for the longest time. There is a lot of science that is PC too. LIFE magazine did a series on SLAVE TRADE, and you can't find it in the stacks at the Library because someone took a razor blade and removed all that stuff from Reference. 34,000 years ago is a long time ago. Good luck with the neanderthals. Maybe that explains why your mother has hair on her back? No? |
| Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 2014-08-22 05:44 |
| #1 It's ongoing. |
| Posted by: gorb 2014-08-22 01:27 |