Another ntry inth “why the Neanderthals died out” science talk show, from ScienceDaily:
Neandertals adapted their diet to the resources that were most readily available and easily accessible, while modern humans seemed to have invested more effort in accessing food resources. Modern humans’ changes in diet were possibly more strongly marked by the use of new technologies in obtaining food. The researchers concluded that Upper Paleolithic modern humans’ differing dietary strategies may have given them an advantage over the Neandertals.
“Actually, one would expect that the Neandertals would be better adapted to the occasionally very harsh climatic conditions in Ice Age Europe,” says Sireen El Zaatari. “They developed there, while anatomically modern humans evolved in Africa and only migrated to Europe much later,” she explains. El Zaatari is able to draw conclusions about diet by assessing the type and degree of microwear on the molars. The data for her study were taken from the remains of 52 European and Levantine individuals — Neandertals and Upper Paleolithic humans — from 37 sites dating back to between 500,000 and 12,000 years before the present. “The alternation between colder and warmer phases reshaped the landscape again and again. Sometimes, the habitat was that of the steppe, at other times, there were forests,” says El Zaatari. More. Paper. (public access) – Sireen El Zaatari, Frederick E. Grine, Peter S. Ungar, Jean-Jacques Hublin. Neandertal versus Modern Human Dietary Responses to Climatic Fluctuations. PLOS ONE, 2016; 11 (4): e0153277 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153277
So the study draws such large conclusions from 52 assorted individuals over half a million years…
Count ‘em. Won’t take long.
No offense intended, but if this sort of thing weren’t fuelled by Darwinism, it would be laughed at for sheer insufficiency of information. When blessed by Darwinism, it becomes “science.” Because Darwinism is not a form of enquiry; it is a search for evidence to prove a point. Whole different project.
Someday one hopes, with more information, early human history will be put on a historical footing, which will advance knowledge by slaughtering thousands of speculations based on very little evidence.
Yes, guys, that’s the sea boiling over again.
See also: Neanderthal Man: The long-lost relative turns up again, this time with documents
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New Scientist tells us what human gene traits conquered world One must pay to read anything significant, and one senses that we’re not going to hear why, exactly, those other groups are somehow classified as not “the human species.” Because if they are, the story collapses: Everyone who wasn’t cloned has a blended genetic inheritance.
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