UM-Bot Posted January 15, 2015 #1 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Scientists now believe that Neanderthals were no less advanced that their modern human counterparts. An increasing body of evidence suggests that our Neanderthal cousins were surprisingly similar to the ancestors of modern man. Read More: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/276917/were-neanderthals-our-intellectual-equals 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted January 15, 2015 #2 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Neanderthals have alway gotten a bad rap. Their radical morphological deviation from the European norm automatically made them our inferiors in the minds of nineteenth century paleontologists. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted January 15, 2015 #3 Share Posted January 15, 2015 so. they were- bigger than us. stronger than us. as clever as us. . why are we here? and they are not. . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted January 15, 2015 #4 Share Posted January 15, 2015 QUOTE- Some of the earliest depictions of Neanderthals suggested that they were slow, dim-witted cavemen, but thanks to a slew of palaeontological discoveries over the years we now know that these close relatives to modern humans were both intelligent and skillful; creating their own tools and living in complex social groups. . surely, no-one these days really believes Neanderthals were a bunch of window-licking retards?! as Hammerclaw pointed out, this isn't the nineteenth century anymore..... . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithisco Posted January 15, 2015 #5 Share Posted January 15, 2015 I can only think that it was the way that the neural connections within the brain were organised that gave Homo Sapien Sapiens the edge. OR - maybe HSS simply reproduced with greater frequency... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted January 15, 2015 #6 Share Posted January 15, 2015 maybe HSS simply reproduced with greater frequency... . as a wise man(?) once said- "size matters not" maybe it was numbers that gave us the edge? after all, the puny little Lilliputians gave Gulliver a hard time..... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted January 15, 2015 #7 Share Posted January 15, 2015 so. they were- bigger than us. stronger than us. as clever as us. . why are we here? and they are not. . They were genetically swamped. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karasu Posted January 15, 2015 #8 Share Posted January 15, 2015 I could see a case for increased reproduction in HSS. A larger population means more warriors to kill off the Neanderthal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted January 15, 2015 #9 Share Posted January 15, 2015 They were not as handsome and beautiful as HSS ~ without beauty our specie would not have survived this far ~ botoxians will end up ruling the future ~ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atuke Posted January 15, 2015 #10 Share Posted January 15, 2015 It's just another part of European descendants taking control of everything and exploiting the environment and its surroundings to depletion. Modern European man has been a virus to this planet it seems. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted January 15, 2015 #11 Share Posted January 15, 2015 On the bright side, they left us three percent of their genome, fair skin, red hair and bagpipes. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLOMBIE Posted January 15, 2015 #12 Share Posted January 15, 2015 They were not as handsome and beautiful as HSS ~ without beauty our specie would not have survived this far ~ botoxians will end up ruling the future ~ No, because that's not beautiful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted January 15, 2015 #13 Share Posted January 15, 2015 No, because that's not beautiful. Well , the Botoxians are hopeful that the Science behind the Technology is getting more advanced by the day ~ I am even hearing more of Botox Specialists Clinics now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PersonFromPorlock Posted January 15, 2015 #14 Share Posted January 15, 2015 I have long suggested that big-brained Neanderthal tribes were the equivalent intellectually of small liberal-arts college faculties - too busy trying to find the correct pronunciation of "Om" and forming amateur chamber music societies to survive in the long run. But I only do it to annoy. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonardo Posted January 15, 2015 #15 Share Posted January 15, 2015 I have read some academic papers suggesting that, while Neanderthals were as intelligent as H. sap, they weren't as creatively intelligent. For example, they didn't appear to have ever developed sewing as a means to make warmer clothing - despite living in a much colder climate than where modern humans developed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithisco Posted January 15, 2015 #16 Share Posted January 15, 2015 It's just another part of European descendants taking control of everything and exploiting the environment and its surroundings to depletion. Modern European man has been a virus to this planet it seems. Modern USA folk don't figure in this then? Modern USA "Man" seems to have added a lot of misery to this world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted January 15, 2015 #17 Share Posted January 15, 2015 I have read some academic papers suggesting that, while Neanderthals were as intelligent as H. sap, they weren't as creatively intelligent. For example, they didn't appear to have ever developed sewing as a means to make warmer clothing - despite living in a much colder climate than where modern humans developed. I guess that's quite possible as IQ indicates your ability to learn and think, not what you actually know how to do. Even two different people with the same general IQ don't easily learn how to do the same tasks or learn the same information. Somethings I thing are quite simple, other people find hard to grasp. The brain "wiring" has to account for something. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atuke Posted January 15, 2015 #18 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Modern USA folk don't figure in this then? Modern USA "Man" seems to have added a lot of misery to this world Of course that's what I'm referring too since they came from Europe. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foil Hat Ninja Posted January 15, 2015 #19 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Being as smart as us really isn't that much of an accomplishment. Certainly not worth bragging about. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted January 16, 2015 #20 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Neanderthals had remarkable technological ability.. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/neanderthal-superglue.html 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted January 16, 2015 #21 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Of course that's what I'm referring too since they came from Europe. Could you two go somewhere and self-flagellate in private? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiXilver Posted January 16, 2015 #22 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Funny that people think of our ancestors as these slow, dumb, simple beast like creatures... when they were obviously savvy, adaptive and highly intelligent... proved in the fact that we are here. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolguy Posted January 16, 2015 #23 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Them liveing for millions of years does not make them dumb. If they where dumb they would not have lasted that long, Iam a Neanderthal 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarjarbinks Posted January 16, 2015 #24 Share Posted January 16, 2015 why back then, we had many human races and now, we only have one ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gailforce Posted January 16, 2015 #25 Share Posted January 16, 2015 oh please they whore way smarter take away the internet and cell service and half of us would be dead in a year we have forgotten most that we have lurned over time 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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