That was going to be my next point of contention with RCG if he had continued the conversation. The success of Europeans and, thus, Americans vs other ethnicities over the last few hundred years provides evidence that having a couple percent of Neanderthal DNA in your makeup might be of a profound benefit to success instead of a hindrance.Quote from jem:
Its funny everybody assumes neanderthals were dumb because some bone guys took a guess.
how the hell does anyone know how smart neaderthals were.
in fact if you type in neanderthals... they are now saying they had tools and pottery and they are re guessing the layers of caves.... and everything else. Its a great deal of conjecture..
There are hints of truth in the raw data... but then it gets filtered. By the time it gets to the papers and the text books its less than reliable.
All the stuff we learn in schools in the soft sciences is mostly educated guesses flavored selected by bias.
I suspected it could all be conjecture when they realized the neanderthal cranial capacity was larger.
Quote from AK Forty Seven:
Yes he does.Pics of luke and a Neanderthal side by side looks like twins LOL !!!
I didn't even watch the first one, let alone this one.Quote from Tsing Tao:
Sorry, didn't watch it. Why listen to another hour of bullshit when I can read up on all the lies in the last one.
Not that long ago it was assumed they could not speak, then they discovered they almost certainly could. One of the later theories isn't that they so much went extinct but more likely bred into the Cro-Magnon communities.Quote from jem:
Its funny everybody assumes neanderthals were dumb because some bone guys took a guess.
how the hell does anyone know how smart neaderthals were.
in fact if you type in neanderthals... they are now saying they had tools and pottery and they are re guessing the layers of caves.... and everything else. Its a great deal of conjecture..
There are hints of truth in the raw data... but then it gets filtered. By the time it gets to the papers and the text books its less than reliable.
All the stuff we learn in schools in the soft sciences is mostly educated guesses flavored selected by bias.
I suspected it could all be conjecture when they realized the neaderthal cranial capacity was larger.
Quote from Lucrum:
Not that long ago it was assumed they could not speak, then they discovered they almost certainly could. One of the later theories isn't that they so much went extinct but more likely bred into the Cro-Magnon communities.
Truth is they simply do not really know and probably never will.
Modern "science" gets a little carried away with speculation, guesses and theories treated as fact until proven wrong.