(April 6, 2010 at 2:32 pm)AngelThMan Wrote:(April 6, 2010 at 2:25 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Neanderthals made complex stone tools, wore clothing and body paint and buried their dead with ritual.Neanderthals are extinct. Further proof we are the only species meant to have sapient intelligence!
These were most probably a seperate species to homo Sapiens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal
So we are not the only species to display all signs of Sapience.
Things are never quite so cut and dried as you like to think. It's a by-product of reading what you think is an "infallible" book.
BTW, why did your god create such imperfect creatures?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/0...8619.shtml
Quote:The proven proximity has fostered a debate over whether humans and Neander¬thals might have mated with each other as well. Ramirez Rozzi classifies Neanderthals as a separate species, Homo neanderthalensis, and therefore suspects that close relationships with early humans were rare. "I think early modern humans viewed Neanderthals as a different group, as ‘the other,'" he says.
But Erik Trinkhaus, a physical anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, thinks the two hominids had a much stronger connection. In fact, he controversially argues that Neanderthals did not really go extinct. Rather, he claims, they were absorbed into the larger, rapidly growing population of early humans migrating into Eurasia from Africa. "We will never know to what extent they were absorbed. The bottom line is that they were humans, and sex happens," he says.
They are only now beginning to sort out the Neanderthal genome. Even so, as we all seem to have come from Homo Erectus a find of Erectus dna would be far more enlightening.
Unlike your holy book of fairy tales, science is still asking questions. It does not pretend to have all the answers.