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13. Odds are the genes still exist among us.

Fri Dec 20, 2013, 12:23 PM

Dec 2013

And I doubt very much they were the dumb, mean brutes depicted as "cave men."

We, Homo sapiens, are the dumb mean brutes.

Neanderthals likely had sophisticated extended family structures and cooperative natures.

I imagine the "us versus them" mentality wasn't as strong in Neanderthals, which is why they did not survive as a community in competition with the bloody minded, religiously insane, hyper-tribal, "modern" humans.

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Toe Fossil Provides Complete Neanderthal Genome [View all] hue Dec 2013 OP

I think we ought to create one. Jackpine Radical Dec 2013 #1

I know it raises HUGE ethical problems; but we've GOT to make one! snot Dec 2013 #2

Experimental paleontology--a whole new discipline. Jackpine Radical Dec 2013 #5

Didn't GEICO first address this issue? Octafish Dec 2013 #11

They DID. I saw that commercial, too. closeupready Dec 2013 #12

Odds are the genes still exist among us. hunter Dec 2013 #13

Actually, there's data on that. Jackpine Radical Dec 2013 #15

The thought of Neanderthals making a comeback is kind of scary. ... JEFF9K Dec 2013 #3

They were pretty communual. Jackpine Radical Dec 2013 #6

They'd probably all become lawyers geardaddy Dec 2013 #7

Neanderthals never left. They just assimilated. sybylla Dec 2013 #9

Yup--That's the work I was alluding to above Jackpine Radical Dec 2013 #16

Just think of the Hollywood movies bucolic_frolic Dec 2013 #4

I doubt culture shock adieu Dec 2013 #8

Those that continue to deny human evolution Enthusiast Dec 2013 #10

okay, who wants to volunteer to care the neanderthal clone baby? yurbud Dec 2013 #14