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nocar "Why do everyone assume that the Neandertals were stupid and brutish? As I assume your comments about neighbors and others assume."
Neanderthal men had a higher cranial capacity than modern man , their women less
a big sexual dimorphism there .
They buried their deads with some ceremonial and took care of non useful tribe members , even lifetime invalids
Tanada "that cave painting was from the Homo sapiens, not the Homo Neanderthals, there is no evidence of cave art from Neanderthal man or woman."
true of course with some quibbling , there was some wall squiggles and hand prints
there is no trace of Neanderthals in the patrilinear or matrilineral direct lines , but some traces could be located in the mixed set
interbreding certainly could have taken place but the critical point is indeed fertile descendants
if the genetic distance is too large , most offspring would have been sterile or near sterile
a good crossbreeding could have taken place in the middle east ,the earlier populations were less extreme in their characteristics
The classic western Neanderthal bones indicate their physical strength must have been awesome twenty time modern humans , they would be strong enough to lift a bison on their shoulders and bring it back home , could we clone them back they would have to be banned from playing professional rugby
they had no bows or dogs and didn't fish ??!!
but lasted two hundred thousand years and three full glaciations , some guys
homo sapiens whipped them out with all others early cousins , the myth of Cain is unfortunately true ,
we are Homo Genocidus , the genocidal ape
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