RE: 130,000 years ago? Even Neandertal Fucks the Creatards
March 15, 2015 at 12:58 am
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2015 at 1:02 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 14, 2015 at 11:00 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(March 14, 2015 at 10:11 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Although the Neanderthals had a large brain, the also had overlarge sensory lobes, specifically visual and olfactory lobes. I do believe they had some elements of culture, but things like missing organized agriculture or staying with the same primitive design for their toolkits even as archaic H. Sapiens was designing more and better tools lead me to think that there's a kernel of truth to the stereotype we hold of them.
I heard the problem was not their brains, which were bigger than ours, but other parts of their bodies: specifically, shoulder joints with a very poor range of motion, and possibly problems with overheating in warmer climes.
The overheating I could see as a result of surface-to-mass ratio. I hadn't known about the joint limitations. Little bit of reading to do for the next couple of days, thanks!
(March 14, 2015 at 11:17 pm)NuclearJaguar Wrote: I think we need to forget the idea of modern humans "wiping out" Neanderthals though. They weren't wiped out by modern humans, they just bred with and were absorbed into the encroaching modern human population. That is a big deal, because it means Neanderthals had to be very genetically similar to modern humans. It's not too big an assumption to make that they could probably talk as well.
The recent discovery of a Neaderthal hyoid bone (which provides leverage for the throat muscles in manipulating the larynx) certainly supports this idea.
