I've kept up with the archeological study of neanderthals over the years and at first I wanted to disprove your comparison of neanderthals to soutnern red necks. I wanted to prove that neanderthals were more intelligent than southern red neck hillbilly republicons. But the more I read with that in mind the more I have to agree with you. Although there are some areas that neanderthals have southerners beat, mostly they are the same.
I don't expect any southerners to agree with this since God told them the earth is only 6000 yrs old but thats just part of their neanderthal genes.
Was it ILA who mentioned Scot/Irish?
Red hair may be the genetic legacy of Neanderthals, according to a new study by British scientists.
Researchers at the John Radcliffe Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford were quoted by The Times as saying the so-called "ginger gene" which gives people red hair, fair skin and freckles could be up to 100 000 years old.
They claim that their discovery points to the gene having originated in Neanderthal man who lived in Europe for 200 000 years before Homo sapien settlers, the ancestors of modern man, arrived from Africa about 40 000 years ago.
"An explanation is that it comes from Neanderthals." It is estimated that at least 10 percent of Scots have red hair and a further 40 percent carry the gene responsible, which could account for their once fearsome reputation as fighters."
Not to mention the fiery red Irish hair.
All Non-African People Are Part Neanderthal
Neanderthals, one of the last extant hominid species other than our own, left Africa somewhere between 400,000 and 800,000 years ago and settled mostly in Europe until they went extinct 30,000 years ago. Early modern humans left Africa about 80,000 to 50,000 years ago, meaning they overlapped with Neanderthals in time and place for at least 20,000 years.
http://disinfo.com/2011/07/all-non-african-people-are-part-neanderthal/
Neanderthals were around for a long time, hundreds of thousands of yrs, and in all that time their biggest accomplishment was putting a sharp rock on the end of a stick. They didn't learn to change their way of thinking and grow. Sounds like conservatives to me.
As much as the racist southerners would hate to admit it, people who stayed in Africa have purer blood. LOL
compare these images...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/cavemen/images/indepth/id_neanderthal_face.jpg
http://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/image/tv-duck-dynasty-ratin_leajpg/
"Evidence for a likely 50,000-year-old Neanderthal burial ground that includes the remains of at least three individuals has been unearthed in Spain, according to a Quaternary International paper.
The deceased appear to have been intentionally buried, with each Neanderthal's arms folded such that the hands were close to the head. Remains of other Neanderthals have been found in this position, suggesting that it held meaning.
Neanderthals therefore may have conducted burials and possessed symbolic thought before modern humans had these abilities."
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/neanderthal-burial-ground-afterlife-110420.htm
Conservative scot/irish neanderthals are still trying to force their neanderthal learned religions on us.
(Even though human brains were smaller than neanderthals brains) Neanderthals simply didn't grow socially the way humans did, which indicates that different parts of their brains developed--those more focused on individual survival.
http://www.tested.com/science/life/...erthal-brains-didnt-make-them-smarter-humans/
Society meant little to the tribal neanderthals, wow, things haven't changed in over 50,000 yrs for them.