RE: Cloning H.Erectus
June 24, 2014 at 4:18 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2014 at 4:19 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 16, 2014 at 4:43 pm)KUSA Wrote: I would like to see a neanderthal cloned. They say that it's brain was bigger and smarter than the modern human. Fascinating.
I doubt there is any evidence they are smarter. But according to anthropologist Jarad Diamond of UCLA, there are evidence their biological development from birth to death is not identical to ours. For example, their children seem to mature sooner than ours and their women appear to have no post-menopause life stage. It has been suggested this shows Neanderthals were not as well adapted as HSS to tight family units with grandparents, with lots of knowledge transfer during the children's growth stage.