Comments on: Neanderthal

By: morty62

morty62 — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:37:00 +0000

I wish that still happened today. There is a serious need to thin the gene pool.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:25:00 +0000

Wonder how old this is, I know recent research HAS found Neanderthals dna in ours

By: Dragonheartdoxies

Dragonheartdoxies — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:05:00 +0000

Not just Europeans & Asians(includes the Native peoples of the Americas), Jews, Arabs, Polynesians.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:19:00 +0000

i miss neanderthal man. since i visited natural history museums when i was little, i always thot of him as the good guy and the modern man as selfish and cruel. not very scientific, i know. but i still feel sad that he’s gone and think the wrong species survived.
he had an irritating voice, tho! i bet he hummed and whistled.

By: Josh Wild

Josh Wild — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:12:00 +0000

@Riley Rampant
Your assumptions of how Neanderthal admixture would effect some modern day people in such a negative way is probably incorrect. Many Paleoanthropologists have found the average brain capacity of Homo Sapiens to be smaller than that of the Homo Neanderthalensis. Remember that, whilst it is not always the case, brain size often provides an estimation of ones intelligence. It is likely that their minds may have operated differently, though whether they were biased towards mathematics, animal psychology or creativity we may never know.
Your idea of Neanderthals being loud and unbearable with foul breath could be considered a racist preconception when you consider that the majority of members of some ethnic groups hold no Neanderthal genetics at all.
As more evidence is uncovered, showing the surprising sophistication of the Neanderthals, I hope the general belief of them being brutish, inferior apes will be forgotten. One theory relating to their relatively sudden demise suggests that the ‘invading’ Homo Sapiens hordes obliterated their Neanderthal neighbours.

@Nick Reynolds
The recently discovered ‘Homo Denisovans’ are believed to have contributed to the Melanesians (The Koori, Papuans etc) genome, rather than Neanderthal admixture.

@Ella Silver
Very accurate to the current theories, though theories are subject to change. There is a small debate as to whether Homo Sapiens evolved in and around Israel at the moment, though this is a theory which will possibly be found to be based on false evidence. It does seem that environmental factors promoted the pathway to our modern intelligence.

@Scappydee
The consensus is that Neanderthals evolved from the European & perhaps North African populous of Homo Heidelbergensis, a much earlier species.

By: Ella Silver

Ella Silver — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:24:00 +0000

There is an interesting theory as to why we developed our unique and bizarre brains that relates to the theory i was just talking about. That in africa, conditions were SO harsh that certain individuals evolved the ability to think ahead and imagine. So we could envision what might come tomorrow or the next day and learned to plan appropriately. Those who could do this were more likely to attract mates, produce children and, quite simply, not die. The guy who put water away in an egg shell, let’s say, and buried it for another day, was much more likely to live longer because he had better strategies. He had the water squirreled away. He thought to do this so he was able to live whereas stupider lines of people didn’t think to do this and died off. (Which is how evolution works). So those super-nerds lived on and produced us. A very imaginative and rational creature..

By: Ella Silver

Ella Silver — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:19:00 +0000

there were two exodus out of africa. One earlier (this produced creatures like erectus and peking man and eventually neanderthal) But remember that not all hominids left africa at this time. The ones that stayed behind and survived evolved into modern humans. Then a chunk of THOSE people left africa in the second exodus wave. They, or more accurately WE, almost didn’t get out at all. The ice age had locked up a great deal of ocean water in glaciers and africa suffered a great drought as a result. Human beings almost went extinct and this was likely the driving force behind the second exodus.

I might not be entirely correct but that is the current accepted theory as i understand it.

By: scappydee

scappydee — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 03:29:15 +0000

how did the neandathals get into europe before us

By: mishka

mishka — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:53:27 +0000

Man they dribble on. So little information over explained!

By: High Voltage

High Voltage — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:06:29 +0000

@Latisha – I think he was using the term “savages” in an ironic way to represent the world view of Neanderthals by science at the time of these discoveries.
The documentary seems to do it’s best to dispel these notions as you watch it further. I almost stopped at that point too before I thought a little harder on it, I’m assuming you did stop there?

But you should watch it if only to see the hilarious voice coach session, it could be straight out of a Monty Python sketch!

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 04:00:30 +0000

Terrible documentary. Recent evidence has found that Europeans and Asians share up to 5% of their DNA with Neanderthals, suggesting they were outbred. There’s your conclusion and I didn’t have to ask any actors to ponce about in the woods to get to it.

By: melly666

melly666 — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:55:09 +0000

Yes they do a little Nick.

By: Nick Reynolds

Nick Reynolds — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:46:51 +0000

I think the Native Austrailian Aborigines look quite a bit like the Neanderthal. Does anyone else think they do?

By: melly666

melly666 — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:32:43 +0000

Neanderthal Man + aliens = humans……I’ve cracked it! :)

By: Riley

Riley — Sun, 30 May 2010 04:59:19 +0000

new research has shown that some portion of neanderthal dna (1 to 4 percent)is a part of the modern human genome.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/05/07/neanderthal.human.genome/index.html

therefore, some of the loud, stout, large-snouted, halitosis-ridden, overbearing people you’ve met might not be able to help it…