Neanderthals

[oneflycowboy]

Neanderthals seem to get all the fame. However, there were other humanoid species that roamed the earth long ago as well. Homo erectus was one of the first.

Homo erectus:

Early African Homo erectus fossils (sometimes called Homo ergaster) are the oldest known early humans to have possessed modern human-like body proportions with relatively elongated legs and shorter arms compared to the size of the torso. These features are considered adaptations to a life lived on the ground, indicating the loss of earlier tree-climbing adaptations, with the ability to walk and possibly run long distances.

Early fossil discoveries from Java (beginning in the 1890s) and China ('Peking Man', beginning in the 1920s) comprise the classic examples of this species. Generally considered to have been the first species to have expanded beyond Africa, Homo erectus is considered a highly variable species, spread over two continents (it's not certain whether it reached Europe), and possibly the longest lived early human species

When Lived: Between about 1.89 million and 143,000 years ago

 

[jlrhiner]

Most truly enlightened people would conclude that members of this forum are a bunch of racists. Really, who is to say that one species along the lineage of humanity is better than another, more culturally advanced, more socially attuned, more physically attractive, etc, etc, etc?

I am shocked and nonplussed.

Truly.

Nonplussed to the max.

Truly, have you ever been "plussed"?

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

I'm still waiting for a logical explanation of how Cro Magnon Man managed to emerge, apparently out of nowhere, in Europe 20,000 years ago. I also suspect that this was the group that crossbred with Neanderthal kind of a prehistoric "Put a bag over her head" syndrome!
Jim

Is this a variation of "Where's that native woman I'm supposed to wrestle?"

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

Neanderthals seem to get all the fame. However, there were other humanoid species that roamed the earth long ago as well. Homo erectus was one of the first.

Homo erectus:

Early African Homo erectus fossils (sometimes called Homo ergaster) are the oldest known early humans to have possessed modern human-like body proportions with relatively elongated legs and shorter arms compared to the size of the torso. These features are considered adaptations to a life lived on the ground, indicating the loss of earlier tree-climbing adaptations, with the ability to walk and possibly run long distances.

You mean there really was a homo erectus? I thought it was just the name of a Kinky Friedman song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goLFaM45sGk

 

[DeathGrip]

According to my DNA assay from 23andMe, I'm 2.9% Neanderthal. I assume it's mostly in my jeans.

it's probably better to wear loose fitting jeans.

 

[Absalom]

After the genetic evidence for interbreeding was published, a writer for the Portland Oregonian tried to reconstruct how it might have happened .....

How I met your mother | OregonLive.com

 

[model70hunter]

I'm still waiting for a logical explanation of how Cro Magnon Man managed to emerge, apparently out of nowhere, in Europe 20,000 years ago. I also suspect that this was the group that crossbred with Neanderthal kind of a prehistoric "Put a bag over her head" syndrome!
Jim

Maybe homo sapiens is the result of a cro magnon-neanderthal cross. We be the mule so to speak. He Haw.

 

[RonJ]

Maybe homo sapiens is the result of a cro magnon-neanderthal cross. We be the mule so to speak. He Haw.

But we can breed!

 

[Harkrader]

I'm Cro-Magnon, myself. It's in the eyebrows.

 

[scratchy wilson]

Truly, have you ever been "plussed"?

He's certainly been 'liked' a lot.

 

[Mike McLellan]

Neanderthals rarely excused themselves when they passed gas at social gatherings. I always do.

 

[Lt JL]

I'm not sure, but I don't think the paper bag had been invented in Cro-Magnon/Neanderthal times. Maybe it was just real dark in the cave? And maybe they had discovered fermented grapes?

 

[Frank46]

What is the difference between cro-magnon man and neanderthal man?.
Cro-Magnon man threw rocks and Neanderthal man threw them back. Man am I gonna get flamed for that one. Frank

 

[italiansport]

The Sudden Appearance of Cro-Magnon

 

[cmort666]

The current issue of Military History Quarterly has an article on the origins of organized violence and warfare. It discusses in part Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons and possible conflict between them.

 

[vito]

Not sure about the "homo erectus", not that there's anything wrong with it, but I'll stick with women! I don't even like the mental image that the phrase brings to mind.

 

[arjay]

I suspected this a long time ago.My fishing and hunting buddy's ancestors had come from Eastern Europe/Russia.He had a very distinctive ridge brow,very short legs,a long trunk and monkey arms [emoji1],yet he had the prettiest wife and he was poor! It made no sense [emoji13]

 

[cmort666]

I suspected this a long time ago.My fishing and hunting buddy's ancestors had come from Eastern Europe/Russia.He had a very distinctive ridge brow,very short legs,a long trunk and monkey arms [emoji1],yet he had the prettiest wife and he was poor! It made no sense [emoji13]

In the author's notes accompanying the book "Eaters of the Dead", a novel about an educated Muslim who accompanies a group of Vikings trying to wipe out a band of surviving [cannibalistic] Neanderthals, I believe that the author notes that the Basques are supposedly closely related to the Neanderthals. Given that it's a novel written in the '70s, I'd take that with a grain of salt.

 

[MOONDAWG]

I have nothing scientific to base it on but...

My bet is the whole Neanderthal / Cro-Magnon dating thing probably began about the same time that one group invented "BEER".

 

[M E Morrison]

I have nothing scientific to base it on but...

My bet is the whole Neanderthal / Cro-Magnon dating thing probably began about the same time that one group invented "BEER".

Beer googles at their finest!!!!