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Two Neanderthals That Time Remembered
2008-03-05 15:08:00 Ungo and Mogo, two Neanderthals from about 100,000 years ago were frozen in a glacier and by a rare fluke of nature, the conditions were perfect for cryogenic suspension. Well, with global warming and all, here it is 2008, and guess who just thawed out? You guessed it. Of course, if you heard them speak, you wouldn’t understand a word of it. So we’ve translated their dialog from Neanderthalese into modern day English. Lets listen in as they stumble upon civilization for the first time and encounter a freeway.Ungo: Shiny beasts with circular legs go fast. Strange how they stay on the dark dirt.Mogo: Loose herds make them easy prey, but how do you eat something like that?Ungo: I think you have to shell it to get the meat, like a beetle only slightly larger. I saw something with eyes inside it.Mogo: I saw that too. Was it picking its nose?Ungo: That’s the one.Mogo: Look at those oddly shaped rocks over there near the flat rocks on tall sticks. How do they climb up to draw those s...
Tooth discovery suggests Neanderthals traveled
2008-02-08 23:38:00 Analysis of a 40,000-year-old tooth found in southern Greece suggests Neanderthals were more mobile than once believed, paleontologists and the Greek Culture Ministry said Friday.
Neanderthals grew up faster than we do
2007-12-05 03:16:00 A new analysis shows that the teeth of Neanderthal children grew faster than the teeth of human children today, suggesting that a long childhood and slow development are uniquely human traits.
Neanderthals never inter bred with humans
2007-10-29 11:47:00 European scientists have rebuffed the theory of inter breeding between Neanderthals and men, thus settling one of the biggest riddles in anthropology. The findings ...
By: B4U India
Some Neanderthals were redheads too
2007-10-26 11:33:00 Analysis of ancient DNA retrieved from the bones of two Neanderthals has shown that at least some of them possessed red hair and pale skin. ...
By: B4U India
Neanderthals were human
2007-09-10 09:38:00 Equality of people is no more proven than inequality. It is socially acceptable to detrimentally generalize about mothers in law or dislike neighbors. It?s okay to discuss varying smartness of various breeds of dogs, or to assert that one person is smarter than another. Leftists decry applying that reasoning to nations for a single reason: ...
By: Samson Blinded
Neanderthals in Fact and Fiction
2007-08-20 05:34:00 Neanderthals have been in the news a lot this year - actually, they're in the news a lot almost every year, as indeed they should. A species of humanity very close to ours, who may be part of us, or may have disappeared from the Earth some 30,000 or so years ago, just as our distinct kind of humanity fully emerged.Either way, Neanderthals are fascinating. I couldn't resist writing much of my first novel, The Silk Code, about them. And I have feeling they may well walk among us again in another...A trailer for The Silk Code follows - actually a slice from my interview on The History Channel's Evolution of Science Fiction - along with two recent articles which give an idea of the current state of our knowledge of them... listen to Light On Light Through podcast also iTunes Paul Levinson's books
By: Infinite Regress
Evidence that Neanderthals and Humans Interbred? [Afarensis]
2007-08-02 21:57:00 National Geographic has a story up concerning that question The story concerns Cioclovina 1 - a skull discovered in 1942 and recently reanalyzed by a group that includes Erik Trinkaus. The group argues that the skull displays nuchal morphology found only in Neanderthals, along with some derived modern human features: Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/140-127615/
UFC fans are nothing but a bunch of ?Neanderthals!?
2007-06-07 16:33:00 ...According to Vanochten.Brian Vanochten you fat bastard. Once again, it comes as no surprise; the UFC is gaining more negative light and criticism from ill-bred assholes who don?t understand the sport of mixed martial arts. With the recent upheaval of criticism from such major names as Floyd Mayweather, Tommy Morrison and even Bernard Hopkins, the criticism is just another day in the park. In a recent article featured on mlive.com, a news website based in Michigan, Vanochten got off his lazy ass and decided to write an article bashing the UFC and fans of the sport. He doesn?t do it in a professional fashion, why would he? When he can come off as a total douche bag! Like everyone else in the media bashing the UFC, he begins his article by referring to the UFC as ?glorified street fighting.?He goes on to state: ?Here?s what UFC fans have in common:A. They?re mostly Neanderthal males hiding in caves.B. They're not nearly sophisticated enough to appreciate the sweet scie...
By: The Irish Whip
Episode 7 ? Meet the Neanderthals, Part 2 (Cousin / Cuisine?)
2007-04-29 00:59:00 Now that you got a little background on the history of Neanderthal studies in episode 5, it's time to dig a bit deeper. This episode is all about how we may be related to them -- as ancestors, or just distant cousins.
Neanderthals' link to early humans studied
2007-04-26 04:08:00 ST. LOUIS, April 25: A U.S. researcher has determined Neanderthals influenced the early modern humans that succeeded them.
By: newkerala.com
Early humans showed traits of Neanderthals
2007-04-24 13:30:00 Washington, Apr 24 : A new study by a Washington University anthropologist has revealed that early humans showed traits of Neanderthals.
By: newkerala.com
Episode 5 ? Meet the Neanderthals
2007-04-07 17:50:00 As a prelude to some episodes on human evolution and our historical relatives, I thought it would be helpful to start out with a bit of history. So this episode is devoted to the history of Neanderthal discoveries, and how those discoveries were viewed culturally....
Why Neanderthals Depended On Spirits
2007-04-03 22:04:00 Neanderthals roaming Siberia 200,000 years ago during the Ice Age had a harsh existence. Subsisting in subarctic conditions, these primitive beings still had a comprehension for the soul. Scientists have discovered ancient cave drawings of what apppears to be a Shaman in the tribes communicating with the spirits to find good hunting grounds. That ...
British Neanderthals: jawbone may provide first evidence
2006-12-13 12:35:02 A piece of jawbone known to be thousands of years old is being re-examined by scientists who believe it may be Britain's first direct evidence of Neanderthal man.The bone was excavated from Kents Cavern in Torquay, south Devon in 1927 and was thought to be about 31,000 years old.However a team at the Natural History Museum are wondering if the jawbone is actually more ancient, perhaps from a Neanderthal.The new research was initiated when Dr Roger Jacobi and Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum obtained new radio-carbon dating for animal bones found in cave sediments directly above and below where the jaw fragment was found. Read the rest of this article...
Scientists report new findings in study of Neanderthals
2006-12-07 22:25:02 To those who become squimish during discussions of evolution and religion, I do not intend to endorse or promote here any particular theory of evolution. What follow are my thoughts on recent reports from scientists who have been studying Neanderthal remains.In the grand drama that is evolutionary theory and its remainders, scientists have continually puzzled over the possible relation between Neanderthals, named after the Neander River in Germany where their remains were first discovered, and modern humans. Archaeologists have pointed to related human activities between the two: skilled hunting, building, irrigation and burying the dead. However, the marked distinctions between the skeletal structures between Neanderthals and modern humans has suggested that, while perhaps related, the two are distinct lines diverging from a hypothetical common ancestor that dates back anywhere from 700,000 to 300,000 years ago.Gene sequencing on Neanderthal remains has been underway for some t...
Hungry Neanderthals 'ate each other'
2006-12-06 00:26:01 Neanderthal Man was a cannibal who supplemented a meagre diet with occasional meals of meat from his own species, new research has suggested.An analysis of Neanderthal bones and teeth from 43,000 years ago has revealed important details of their diet and lifestyle, including some of the best evidence yet for cannibalism among the close relatives of modern human beings.Many of the skeletons found in a cave at El Sidrón, in Asturias, Spain, carry cut marks consistent with having been butchered for meat, scientists studying the remains of eight Neanderthal individuals have found.Other long bones from the arms and legs have been broken apart, apparently to remove nutritious bone marrow to eat, and some of the skulls show signs of having been opened to get at the brains. Read the rest of this article...
Did starving Neanderthals eat each other?
2006-12-06 00:26:01 Neanderthals lived a desperately tough life, sometimes so close to starvation that when one of them died their compatriots would fall upon the body and devour it, according to new research. Scorned as clumsy, idiotic brutes with little in the way of developed culture, our pitiless modern view of Neanderthals may be tempered by new findings that provide insight into the terrible life our evolutionary cousins faced.Antonio Rosas, of the National Museum for Natural Sciences in Madrid, Spain, and colleagues studied 43,000-year-old Neanderthal remains found in the El Sidrón cave in the north of the Iberian peninsula. The cave is extraordinarily rich in Neanderthal remains. About 1300 Neanderthal fossils have been excavated since its accidental discovery in 1994. And the picture emerging from analysis of the remains is now enriching our understanding of the much-maligned species.Read the rest of this article...
Neanderthals Were Cannibals, Study Confirms
2006-12-06 00:26:01 Neanderthals suffered periods of starvation and may have supplemented their diet through cannibalism, according to a study of remains from northwest Spain.Paleobiologists studied samples from eight 43,000-year-old Neanderthal skeletons excavated from an underground cave in El Sidrón, Spain since 2000. The study sheds light on how Neanderthals lived before the arrival of modern humans in Europe.Researchers found cut marks and evidence that bones had been torn apart, which they say could indicate cannibalism. "There is strong evidence suggesting that these Neanderthals were eaten," said the study's lead author, Antonio Rosas of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid. "That is, long bones and the skull were broken for extraction of the marrow, [which] is very nutritious."Read the rest of this article...
Neanderthals have genome chunk sequenced
2006-11-16 10:36:01 What are the genetic changes that set us apart from our Neanderthal cousins? Although the ancient race is long extinct, we may soon know the answers.More than one million base pairs of fossilised Neanderthal DNA have now been sequenced ? the most of any extinct organism ? thanks to a new high-throughput sequencing technique well-suited to handling old, degraded DNA.Two research teams collaborated closely on the project ? the first steps towards sequencing the Neanderthal genome ? in a marked difference to the competitive race to for the human genome.Both teams used the same 38,000-year-old Neanderthal specimen, discovered in Croatia, from which to extract DNA and report their findings on Wednesday in the journals Nature and Science, respectively.Read the rest of this article...
Could our big brains come from Neanderthals?
2006-11-09 09:48:02 Neanderthals may have given the modern humans who replaced them a priceless gift -- a gene that helped them develop superior brains, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.And the only way they could have provided that gift would have been by interbreeding, the team at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Chicago said.Their study, published in the Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences, provides indirect evidence that modern Homo sapiens and so-called Neanderthals interbred at some point when they lived side by side in Europe.Read the rest of this article...
Gene study throws light on the evolution of Neanderthals and
2006-10-27 21:48:01 A new genetic study carried out by geneticist James Noonan at Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory, has revealed that humans and Neanderthals branched-off from a common ancestor, much earlier than previously thought. This study could put an end to the controversies surrounding the evolution of modern humans and Neanderthals, with a few theories claiming that Neanderthals [...]
Neanderthals Are Extinct?
2006-10-17 02:36:02 Einei HaEdah writes on feministic ritual innovations "It would appear that these practices are, for many reasons, impermissible according to Torah law."How utterly neanderthal.
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