Human evolution - recent news

[Mott the Hoople]

Good luck with that huge inferiority complex.

You’re welcome. Now come back and enjoy the conversation when you actually understand what’s being discussed.

[Phantasmal]

Thanks Mott and Cypress, Owl great exchange, please do so more often.

[Phantasmal]

"Neanderthal" was, is, and will remain into the foreseeable future a colloquialism for primitive, uncouth, crude, prehistoric.

Most message board dunces do not have the knowledge or interest to be remotely aware of the geographic distribution of Neanderthal DNA, behaviour, anatomy. I believe you are presumably more informed on it than most.

Wrapping up - I consider the "Neanderthal" insult to be a more elegant way of describing rightwing knuckle draggers!

It’s one of my favorites.

[Phantasmal]

A good point.
Purportedly, Neanderthal had a nominally larger brain than Homo Sapiens.

However, there is no evidence Neanderthal produced cave art or had language - so for now, Homo Sapiens still hold the lead in cultural development!

Surprisingly, I was first introduced to the idea that Neanderthals were more advanced than I had perviously thought by Jean M. Auel in “Clan of the Cavebear”.

I then read several articles about their burial practices and migration. Thanks for this update, now we can add art to the mix.

[Phantasmal]

I really like how science -- and then we non-sci-ppl -- change our thinking about extinct creatures as we learn more. Remember when dinosaurs were thought to be plodding, cold-blooded, slow and stupid?

They were all various shades of green and brown, too, now we know some were colorful and had feathers.

[ThatOwlWoman]

They were all various shades of green and brown, too, now we know some were colorful and had feathers.

Sure wish we had a time machine so we could go back and see what they really looked like!

[Iolo/Penderyn]

"Neanderthal" was, is, and will remain into the foreseeable future a colloquialism for primitive, uncouth, crude, prehistoric.

Most message board dunces do not have the knowledge or interest to be remotely aware of the geographic distribution of Neanderthal DNA, behaviour, anatomy. I believe you are presumably more informed on it than most.

Wrapping up - I consider the "Neanderthal" insult to be a more elegant way of describing rightwing knuckle draggers!

For what it's worth, they had much bigger brains, and managed to last a lot longer than we have yet, which is hardly true of your pretend-Christians.

[Iolo/Penderyn]

Sure wish we had a time machine so we could go back and see what they really looked like!

Short versions of Mr Universe, I'd guess: certainly very muscular.

[Cypress]

They were all various shades of green and brown, too, now we know some were colorful and had feathers.

Based on current knowledge of genetics and anatomy, ornithologists are concluding that birds are not just distant cousins of dinosaurs, but actual living dinosaurs-direct descendents of dinosaurs. Pretty bloody cool if you ask me!

[Eagle_Eye]

Based on current knowledge of genetics and anatomy, ornithologists are concluding that birds are not just distant cousins of dinosaurs, but actual living dinosaurs-direct descendents of dinosaurs. Pretty bloody cool if you ask me!

I wonder why they haven't found any T-Rex fossils with wings.

[Iolo/Penderyn]

I wonder why they haven't found any T-Rex fossils with wings.

Same problem President Trumpf has with pigs. To understand evolution you have to look at where things are coming from.

[Mott the Hoople]

Surprisingly, I was first introduced to the idea that Neanderthals were more advanced than I had perviously thought by Jean M. Auel in “Clan of the Cavebear”.

I then read several articles about their burial practices and migration. Thanks for this update, now we can add art to the mix.

Same here. That Neanderthals had larger brains than modern humans came as a complete surprise to me and Auel's hypothesis that the larger brain's were used not for cognition but memory is more than credible.

[Cypress]

I wonder why they haven't found any T-Rex fossils with wings.

Because T-rex never flew and no one has the slightest expectation of finding such a fossil.
Birds are descended from the flying, feathered dinosaurs of the Cretaceous.

If you actually are genuinely interested in learning about this I suggest >>

BIRDS REALLY ARE DINOSAURS, EXPLAINED

"Forget what you may have heard: Dinosaurs didn't all go extinct 65 millions years ago. In fact, dinosaurs are all around us."

https://www.newsweek.com/birds-reall...plained-437168

[Eagle_Eye]

Because T-rex never flew and no one has the slightest expectation of finding such a fossil.
Birds are descended from the flying, feathered dinosaurs of the Cretaceous.

If you actually are genuinely interested in learning about this I suggest >>

That was sarcasm. On the subject of birds I could care less.

[Phantasmal]

That was sarcasm. On the subject of birds I could care less.

That’s too bad, birds are fascinating.