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Edited Oct 29, 2012, 22:03
Neanderthals v Humans
Oct 29, 2012, 22:01
Neanderthals vs. Humans: Who would win in a fight?

Tsk, that’s the headline from The Independent Online – would have thought they’d have come up with something a bit more intelligent in the body of the article if not in the headline itself but no, we’ve got an artist’s impression of a few ape-like creatures squatting round a fire followed by the question, “...what would happen if modern man and his prehistoric ancestor were to square off?”

Tsk again, Neanderthals are not our ancestors – they’re descended from the same ancestor (Homo heidelbergensis) as ourselves. Sorry if I’m sounding nerdy on this but I’ve got a very soft spot for our Neanderthal cousins (and from recent TV progs it seems we even carry 2-3% of their DNA) and get fed-up with the inaccurate and out-of-date bad press they still get.

More germane to TMA, I’ve often wondered if they (Neanderthals) might not have been the ‘builders’ of some of our ‘simpler’ stone structures. Dunno if anyone has done any research on that but the idea that some of our structures might be the work of Neanderthals, and not Homo sapiens, is fascinating.
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