Neanderthal

won and we just won out

yeah that's fucking crazy dude The Devonians, the Homo erectus, Cro-Magnon, Neanderthal, and more.

Where's the

Bible people at on that?

Nothing further need here be said about it.

leaving these evidences of human antiquity we come to the most remarkable and significant of all the known relics of man if indeed it is man for it seems to many a link between man and ape not yet human while no longer simian this is the fossil find made by dr eugene dubois in eighteen ninety one on the banks of the bungawan river java and named by him pithecanthropus erectus he maintaining that it represents a new genus of upright animals or even a new family the remains found by him consisted of the upper part of a skull a molar tooth and a femur possibly not belonging to a single individual as they were found somewhat separated the femur very closely resembles that of a human being of average size and its shape articulating surface and other characteristics show clearly that the animal stood habitually erect the principal significance lies in the tooth and the cranium the former is like that of the chimpanzee in shape but less rugose on its grinding surface it seems to lie between the ape and the human type of dentition the cranium has a low depressed arch with a very narrow frontal region and highly developed superciliary ridges the cranial capacity was apparently about one thousand that of man being from thirteen hundred to fourteen hundred it is therefore said to be the lowest human cranium yet described very nearly much below the neanderthal as that is below the normal european professor o c marsh in a paper on the subject in the american journal of science for february eighteen ninety five agrees with dr dubois in his view of the distinct position of this form in the animal kingdom and says that the discoverer has proved the existence of a new prehistoric anthropoid form not human indeed but in size brain power and erect posture much nearer man than any animal hitherto discovered living or extinct we have here given a short review of a long story the evidences of man's former existence upon the earth are multitudinous but any extended consideration of them is aside from our purpose which is merely to show that the proofs of man's descent found in his physical structure are strengthened by evidences which he has left strewn behind him in his long march down the ages only a single conclusion can be drawn from these vestiges of man excavated from caves and gravels namely that they indicate a gradual and steady progression upward from a very low condition while they nowhere give evidence of the traditional fall of man this is certainly the case with the relics of human workmanship they begin with the rudest chipped stones and very slowly improve in form and finish and become more varied as we move upward in our search the ground and polished stones follow and the variety of implements considerably increases until at length the age of metal with its developed industries is reached the only seeming evidence of superior intellect to be found in this gradual progress is that of the drawings and carvings left us by one group of palolithic man but the actual mental development indicated by these becomes problematical when we consider that similar drawings are made to-day by the bushmen of south africa a race of men occupying a very low mental stage from this fact we may fairly conclude that the possession of a simple graphic art does not necessarily indicate any considerable intellectual advance If we consider the remains of man himself, the few bones which mark his early pathway through time, a similar conclusion must be drawn.

Beginning with Pythocanthropus, which science is yet in doubt whether to class with the apes or with men, we pass upward to the bestial Neanderthal man and his fellows of the same low type.

Of the sparse remains of Paleolithic man that exist, the most are of this degraded type.

the cranial capacity is usually not small they had the full brain development of man but this simply assimilates them with the lower races of existing savages many of whom have not developed the simple art of chipping stone to form weapons and yet have brains of normal human weight in truth the influences under which the development of the brain took place were not what we now call intellectual developing man used his mental powers actively in his dealings with the hostile forces of surrounding nature and nearly all the forces of evolution were brought to bear upon the organ of the mind the body remaining practically unchanged his senses became acute his cunning and alertness high his use of weapons skillful but his field of mental exercise was still the outer world and the inner world of thought remained in its embryo state the more recent development of the mind has been in its intellectual powers while its physical aptitudes have somewhat declined This has not yielded any marked increase in the dimensions of the brain, but it may have had a decided effect upon the proportion of its parts.

Yes.

One of the questions I always ask the Doomers is like, imagine we're a tribe of Neanderthals.

And we noticed some other things running around that, you know, they're like very, they're like much, they have different, a different slender build compared to us.

They seem to be frightfully clever.

And the war chief of the Neanderthal says, we better go just kill all these things because, you know, they're a danger to us.

Yeah.

And so imagine that the war chief prevails and the Neanderthals kill all the humans, all the Homo sapiens.

As a consequence, 100,000 years later, the world is still dominated by Neanderthals.

The more that

I hear about how humans interbred with Neanderthals, the more horny I get.

Hey, this is Penn and Kim Holderness from Laugh Lines.

Some travelers want the charm of an independent hotel.

That's really playing hard to get, in my opinion.

Yeah.

Sometimes, you know, they find stuff from Neanderthals so far deep into a cave that...

Right? That it gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, there's like one group somewhere.

So we are kind of, what would you say, we're not as advanced, we're not the same people as the Cro-Magnons.

It's another instance where if you look at what anthropologists have said about evolution, one, they believe in the replacement theory, meaning that Cro-Magnon replaced Neanderthal and never did they mix and never did they interbreed.

But just in the last few years, they've realized that they did breed.

And if you're from non-African descent, you have about a 5% Neanderthal in your gene pool.

Most noted is the ginger gene, which has actually been isolated to Neanderthal.

So someone with red hair and freckles, that has been isolated as a Neanderthal gene.

And where would you find red hair and freckles? Well, you'd find it up in the north.

Well, where was the north? Well, that was where the Maritime Archaic was.

list.

That's the Neanderthal.

That's the Neanderthal.

So, Chuck, you've got questions on this topic, on primates.

On primatology.

Next one, go.

All right, Petros in Zuzulas wants to know this.

How can all Homo sapiens be nearly genetically identical to each other when not all Homo sapiens interbreeded with Neanderthal?

But Peter's sort of alluded to this, that it's the time between the extinction and the reintroduction that has a big role to play.

And I reckon probably the woolly mammoth story, it'll depend on how much Neanderthal DNA you have.

as to whether you think it's a good idea or not.

Because if you've got more Neanderthal DNA, you probably think,

yes, this is a great idea.

But if you've got more human DNA...

I think

it's a fantastic idea.

And then while that's happening, Micah is going through newspapers or whatever at H.G. Wells' desk that are all like, H.G. Wells is a feminist and a suffragist, and Micah's like, that's probably why they bronzed him.

Neanderthals.

Neanderthals.

And then gets a call from Artie and Artie's like, I want an update.

And she's like, okay, well, we're in London.

If people are worse than Hitler that have been bronze worse than Hitler.

Come on now.

I love that HG appeals to Micah's misandry here, where she's like, men suck, Neanderthals, which is the thing that she literally just said.