Actually, in recent years, researchers have found evidence of a rich Neanderthal culture, belying the stereotypes we have incorporated into our culture. So when did human evolution actually take place?
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Here’s a curious question: What did Neanderthals evolve from?
Some of us would like to know why, apart from professional jealousies and corruption, there is even an issue about differences between Neanderthals and the rest of us.
Evidence of recent Neanderthal ancestry at surprisingly late dates
At Nature: By measuring these segments, the researchers estimated that the Bacho Kiro individuals had Neanderthal ancestors as recently as the past six or seven generations — and probably in Europe, not the Middle East. “We saw these huge chunks. It was completely amazing,” says Hajdinjak,
Did a magnetic field reversal doom the Neanderthals?
A theory this exotic is bound to be popular. Archaeologist and anthropologist Anna Goldfield assesses the evidence. She points out that Neanderthals generally didn’t live in the areas where they’d be most affected … (more)
US Prez accuses Texas and Mississippi governors of “Neanderthal thinking”
How about New York governor Cuomo packing nursing homes with COVID patients, which resulted in thousands of deaths? Now that we have channelled Neanderthal man anyway, does he have an opinion on that?
Researchers: Neanderthals could speak like other humans
Researchers: “Most previous studies of Neandertal speech capacities focused on their ability to produce the main vowels in English spoken language. However, we feel this emphasis is misplaced, since the use of consonants is a way to include more information in the vocal signal and it also separates human speech and language from the communication patterns in nearly all other primates.”
Those Neanderthals were always too dumb to know how dumb we needed them to be
By the way, seriously, was your boss a Neanderthal too?
How Neanderthals got the role of The Subhumans
The “shock value” of officially scientific concepts of the subhuman was a harbinger of things to come.
The “dumb Neanderthal” myth dies hard
Prediction: Neanderthals will suddenly become just like us if a different set of putative “less than human” bones turns up. So long as there is no other “not quite human” in easy view, it really doesn’t matter what Neanderthals actually did. They’ll still have to be cast that way to appear in the approved drama of human evolution.
Cultural evolution theories “challenged” by multiple dwelling cave
This kind of find is treated as problematic because it means that the missing link is still missing. Nobody is the subhuman. That’s not good news for a Darwinian approach to human evolution, in which someone must be the subhuman.
Neanderthals were way smarter hunters than we used to think
From ScienceDaily: Neanderthals have been imagined as the inferior cousins of modern humans, but a new study by archaeologists at UCL reveals for the first time that they produced weaponry advanced enough to kill at a distance. The study, published in Scientific Reports, examined the performance of replicas of the 300,000 year old Schöningen spears Read More…