When you call someone a Neanderthal...

hmm, thats interesting. Though I ask my self from where it comes. I mean I always thought Neanthertals and Cromagnon Humans didnt mixed. But well.

 

I remember learning this in an Anatomy & Physiology class I had to take at University. Something about their DNA being different from the rest, I think. Regardless, very interesting stuff.

 

I've been called a caveman on several occasions. wouldn't surprise me if I am one.

 

That explains the abundance of bodyhair.

 

beeing a caveman isnt even that bad if you consider that they usualy would travel around 40km on average every day to get their food. How much is the typical MCDonalds loving american moving around on average today ~ just joking, you know I love yah all you yanks!

 

Doesn't surprise me at all, probably banging pretty much whatever moved back then. Kinda like now heh.

 

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No why? The Cromagnon had pretty much the same size and thus same level of inteligence like the humans today (so they believe).

 

Was this not the plot of The Clan of the Cave Bear?

 

As far as i know Neanderthals had a bigger brain than Homo Sapiens. Thus they could've been smarter today, if they lived and evolved.

 

Since they didn't, I'd guess they weren't that smart.

 

They died because homo sapiens might have been more aggresive and violent. The guy with the biggest stick wins. Screw your pottery and potter's wheel, we've got sharp sticks!

 

By the time where you have pottery and especially potter's wheels, you've developed agriculture, husbandry and advanced sedentary societies. You would easily eradicate any and all other groups living like nomads with weapons technology and disease. Haven't you played civilization?

It's not the most violent that wins.

 

Being smart = finding a way not to get killed or how to kill opponents more efficiently. Also, weren't they bigger than homo sapiens?

BTW doesn't intelligence determine how fast you can learn and adapt? Furthermore, does it really boil down to higher functions only or isn't the ability to survive also a sign of intelligence?

Just a brain-storm over here.

 

It's funny that us whites have thought for long that africans are lesser humans when they in fact are more pure homo sapiens not having bred with neanderthals.

 

Don't confuse nomadism with agriculture/animal husbandry. I was referring to the switch to sedentarism of early civilizations, not medieval empires. Especially not medieval empires that ,partially through trading, had access to advanced military technology and immunity to diseases.

 

Yeah, how about the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_invasion?