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- Epilogue
The funny part of it all is that because no university professor on Planet Earth has any idea about
the Scientific Method, the 'scientists' have this amusing idea that Science is all about persuading
and recruiting and proving and believing. They think that Science moves forward by consensus.
Since admixture has not been thoroughly 'proven' (i.e., the admixture crusaders haven't convinced
all the peers, many of whom are still card-carrying members of the war faction), they do the next
best thing: they reach a compromise. In order to accommodate both the admixture and the war
factions, consensus is surging that BOTH of these happened. CroMagnons killed the Neanderthal
men AFTER the Neanderthal thugs raped their women. Or maybe it was the other way around?
Oh, well. Either way we have war AND love and everybody is now happy.
The admixture party line The way it happened
And Heidelberg begat Neanderthal And H. erectus begat Neanderthal here
And Neanderthal begat Humans... And Man there...
Make love, not war
The most popular Neanderthal extinction theory which for some time now has been gaining ground is the
one peddled by deluded admixture crusader Erik Trinkaus. Since Trinkaus can't figure out how a species
vanishes on its own -- short of an asteroid striking it -- he reasons that the only possible alternative is that
Neanderthal and anatomically modern Man intermarried. Cromagnon loved Neanderthal to death...
- "the dispersal of early modern Europeans into Iberia involved extensive biological
admixture with local Neandertals"
Let's make sure that you understand what Trinkaus is saying. He is not saying that there was a one-night
stand where a Neanderthal ape raped an unfortunate human female victim in the bushes and then let her
go to have her hybrid baby back in her clan's cave. He is saying that the Neanderthal apes and our human
ancestors were friendly neighbors and with all the free time they had after the hunt they swapped females
to put a little spice and variety in their otherwise dull lives. They did this for thousands of years, from
generation to generation throughout Europe until the Neanderthal DNA simply melted away into our
populations.
- It is as a result of influential scatterbrains like Trinkaus that the unwary Neanderthals have undergone a
radical face lift over the last 40 years. The Neanderthal of old was a hairy gorilla, a brute that carried a
huge club over his shoulder, lived in caves, banged HIS squaw over the head when he wanted to have sex,
and stabbed our forefathers with his rugged spear whenever both laid claim to the same mammoth. The
Neanderthal of today is a totally different creature. He is now a blue-eyed Hollywood blonde dressed in
brand-name furs and boots. He clubs OUR unfaithful women while our unsuspecting men are out on the hunt.
Then, our unwitting cuckold forefathers lovingly cuddled the hybrid bastard in their arms 9 months later when
their deceiving wives make them believe that the tiny hairy monster is really theirs. Quite a theory!
| The Evolution of Neanderthal |
Making a monkey out of you Neanderthal vs. Cromagnon (humans) |
In 1909, the French paleontologist Boule hired an artist to sketch a likeness of a typical Neanderthal. Since then Neanderthal has undergone a radical change, becoming ever more human, ever more white, and ever less hairy. The 2013 BBC documentary 'Prehistoric Autopsy made Neanderthal into a clean-cut, blond Hollywood movie star. Incapable of explaining the extinction of the Neanderthals, admixture theorists have stealthily placed in the eyes and minds of the masses the amusing idea that their forefathers looked pretty much like us. The theory that is gaining the upper hand is that the Neanderthals disappeared when they intermarried with humans. If the admixture folk have their way, you will soon end up believing that the ape on the left was your great grandfather. |
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Neanderthals had bigger eyes than we do and had them located higher up on their foreheads which were flatter. Their brows protruded conspicuously from their faces and they had prominent noses. Although slightly smaller than CroMagnon, they were much more robust – like weight lifters or gorillas. Neanderthals were certainly hairy and, like the Woolly Mammoth they hunted, wore no clothes. The admixture 'scholars' unjustifiably and forcefully cover the Neanderthals with skins and furs to make them look more like us and, thus, subtly, push their hybridization theories. They propose that Man slept with this beast in his caves. Well, then, one or the other. Either our forefathers were not very sapiens in those days or they were quite blind. Coincidentally, the same thing can be said of our contemporary admixture paleontologists. |
Different regions, different ages, different cultures
Despite claims to the contrary, this rugged species was also culturally different than CroMagnon although
not radically. How different can a primordial hunter-gatherer be from another? They obviously will have
many things in common.
In their Golden Age, the Neanderthals hunted large animals in groups and by stealth. They surprised their
prey from behind trees and bushes and stabbed their victims at close range. It has been theorized that
Neanderthal discovered the rodeo clown technique. One member would distract the animal from up front
while another grabbed and clung on to the animal's hairs. The others would then stab the distracted
creature as it tried to shake the rider. This risky tactic would explain why a high proportion of bones found
show signs of 'rodeo' type injuries. Keep in mind that a lot of these theories are inferred from what few
samples we have of Neanderthal bones. We have uncovered to date bones belonging to some 400 different
individuals, one for every one thousand years the Neanderthals lived.
Toward the end of its existence, a species typically ends up in one region of the planet and changes from
a nomadic to a sedentary lifestyle. Let's make that assumption. After hundreds of thousands of years, the
Neanderthals quit their adventurous pioneering ways and finally settle down to a sedentary way of life. It
is now the Upper Paleolithic (50,000 - 10,000 years ago). This explains why they never ventured far out
of Europe. There are no Neanderthal bones in China or India, in the Americas or Africa. The Neanderthals
had expanded to their maximum extent.
We can liken the entire demographic history of the Neanderthals to a wave that sweeps across the beach
and leaves behind puddles here and there when it recedes. The puddles gradually dry up until water is no
more. Similarly, the Neanderthals expanded to their maximum population anywhere between 60,000 to
80,000 years ago. The lakes forming this grand sea then turned into puddles until each dried up locally
perhaps around 40,000 years ago.
Around 50,000 to 40,000 years ago we find the Neanderthals living in clans of a couple of dozens of
individuals at most. The clan was the family. The clan was the country. Anyone outside of the clan was an
enemy and competitor, especially another Neanderthal clan. This enemy had allegiance to a different flag.
Their shelters were caves usually located close to a body of water. They had no contact with brethren on
the other side of Europe. The Upper Paleolithic was the last stretch, the time when scattered pockets of
Neanderthal clans were drying up, each in its own region and isolated geographically from the others.
In contrast, Upper Paleolithic CroMagnon clans were expanding. They were a much newer species having
come into being barely 150,000 years earlier. The AMH had just begun to live and to explore and to multiply.
AMH probably used the spear as a javelin. It is thus that our forefathers could hunt game from afar. If so,
more of their diets could have consisted of smaller game which would have been harder for the Neanderthals
to catch... or of less interest to them... Richard Klein suggests that Cro-Magnons specialized in deer while
the life of the Classical Neanderthals revolved around heavier, slower, hairy animals such as the Woolly
Mammoth and the Woolly Rhino.
H. sapiens sapiens began to expand northwards into Europe, likely following the herds and the fish. This
may explain why they made collars with sea shells that they found on their treks and how they developed
the javelin. But this was not a planned invasion with the intent to conquer the Neanderthals. No primeval
hunter-gatherer thinks in these terms. There was no advanced scouting party or intelligence gathering
as naive extinction 'expert' John Shea would have you believe. For thousands of years, generation after
generation of CroMagnon were not even aware of what was north of the Mediterranean.
The diffusion was more a result of population explosion. It's not like the CroMagnon evacuated Africa and
migrated into Europe. It's that the CroMagnon population was experiencing a type of golden age. It was
probably not a geometric explosion, but still the numbers kept adding. Keep in mind that hunter-gatherers
are required to have low densities by their environment and way of life. The new clans simply settled the
lands ever farther to the north and 'colonized' (actually explored) their way into Neanderthal territory. This
expansion was fueled and sustained by ever more humans and the availability of game.
Therefore, neither the physical appearance nor the culture of the two groups justifies intermarriage. What
need did either species have of finding a mate within the other? Why would a CroMagnon or a Neanderthal
risk his life to steal a woman from the other's cave? Could it be that the admixture folk are confusing their
personal lives with that of hunter-gatherers? What extreme situation would lead a lion to enter a tiger's
territory to have sex with the unwilling, terrified tigress while the male tiger is on the hunt? Would a grizzly
female mate with her cousin the panda or eat him? Admixture folk have to be kidding. They have lost all
common sense.
Here are a couple of scenes that should introduce upstarts like Erik Trinkaus, Svante Pääbo, and
Joao Zilhao to the wild world of sex...
- Here is a leopard having sex with his harem of lionesses.
Here is a pack of wolves having group sex with their cousin the coyote.
That's more or less how Neanderthal would have had sex with CroMagnon!
Doesn't run in the blood
At least three mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) 1, 2, 3 studies have concluded that there was no evidence of
interbreeding at least between human males and Neanderthal females. The last paper summed it up...
- "Further analyses of mitochondrial data, including the comparison of mitochondrial
sequences obtained from several Neanderthals and early modern humans, suggest
little or no admixture between Neanderthal and modern human populations in Europe"
- Since mtDNA is inherited strictly from the mother, you can be absolutely safe that your great grandmother
was not a Neanderthal squaw. Clearly, our forefathers had better taste than our great great grandmothers!
If the admixture 'experts' have it their way, it was our cheating women who had all the fun with the
Neanderthal males. The latest finding by admixture crusader Pääbo is that you have Neanderthal blood in
you.
Dear Svante may know a lot about DNA, but he surely has no capacity for rational reasoning. If 2.5% or
so of our DNA is derived from Neanderthal, it is much more reasonable to infer that our two species
shared a common stem 500,000 or so years ago. Humans and cows share 80% of their genes. Should
we conclude that this is because some perverted taurophile in the past had a Minotaur with a cow? Or
worse, we share 60% of our genes with fruit flies. So, how did our ancient drosophile relative manage
that? When you reason with a clear head, it becomes evident that the amount of shared DNA between
Neanderthals and humans has a totally different explanation.
But let's concede Svante's theory for the sake of argument. Why did our Neanderthal features disappear?
Why did we inherit practically all the morphology and physiology of the CroMagnon and lost the flattened
head, the protruding face, the thick eyebrows, and the absence of a chin typical of Neanderthals?
What if we follow Erik and Svante's reasoning to its logical consequences? What if we apply their logic
to previous hominins? Did Neanderthal males also sleep with females of the H. heidelbergensis clans?
Or perhaps it was the male Heidelbergers that raped the Neanderthal squaws? Is this how species
become extinct? By mating with a representative of the next generation on the species genealogical tree?
You would be surprised what the bozos of Paleo-Mathemagix reply. It makes you wonder about their
state of mind...
- "Now it looks like the Denisovans did some interbreeding of their own. Some stretches
of the Denisovan genome look much older than the rest, says David Reich of Harvard
Medical School. The most likely explanation, he says, is that the Denisovans interbred
with an unidentified species and picked up some of their DNA. The question is, who?
Expert Chris Stringer knows the answer to this question. He replies...
- "The most likely candidate is Homo heidelbergensis, says Chris Stringer of London’s
Natural History Museum. This species lived between 600,000 and 250,000 years ago,
and spread from Africa into Europe and western Asia. That means Denisovans, whose
ancestors followed a similar path, could well have met them."
If you wait long enough, you will get to read such rubbish in Nature or Science one of these days.
Neanderthals had protruding noses and brows, lacked a chin, and were flat heads like gorillas and contemporary paleontologists who claim to descend from them. The only reason contemporary Neanderthals like Trinkaus and Zilhao want you to believe that these two species were identical is that they cannot explain the extinction of the Neanderthals otherwise. |
Humans have streamlined heads, a well defined chin, and much smaller brows than other apes including Neanderthals. Their eyes are located much lower on the face. |
A readily visible difference between AMH and Neanderthals that allows even non-experts tell them apart is that Neanderthals lacked a chin. So called experts such Trinkaus and Zilhao apparently don't seem to know the basics of their trade if they concluded that the Lagar Velho child is a Neanderthal hybrid. |
- Admixture experts may not be willing to concede, but the Neanderthals were a little bit different than us.
They had flattened heads, more like gorillas than like humans. Their faces stuck out of their skulls. They
had enormous eyebrows and noses. They had bowed legs and much thicker and shorter bones, a result
of their adaptation to colder climates. Indeed, one of the salient features that enables any lay person to
distinguish a Neanderthal from an anatomically modern human is the unique chin that we have evolved:
- "the presence of a ‘‘chin’’ has long been recognized as unique to Homo sapiens
among mammals... No Neanderthal included in this study, whether juvenile or
adult, possesses these distinctive features. Instead, the mandibles of both
juvenile and adult Neanderthals are broad and somewhat arcuate across the
midline."
"Another thing that is very distinct in Homo sapiens is the fact that we do have a
chin. This protuberance here is very unique to Homo sapiens and is absent
completely from the mandible of Neanderthals.”
- Yoel Rak, Secrets Of The Stone Age:
The Human Story, History Channel
(2002)
- The only reason 'experts' such as Trinkaus insist on interbreeding in spite of the strong evidence against
it is because they have no explanation for the extinction of the Neanderthals otherwise. Neanderthals were
distinct physiologically and morphologically because they became isolated, inbred, and evolved into a unique
species in the harsh climate of Northern Europe. They eventually migrated southwards and disappeared
on the shorelines of the Mediterranean somewhere around 40,000 years ago. The earliest human that the
Carbon 14 experts have unambiguously dated was found at the OASE Cave in Romania. This human
lived in Europe 5,000 years after the Neanderthals were gone, a chronological distance like the founders
of Ancient Egypt are from us. Of course, the admixture lobby will give a wide enough date range to this
specimen in order to encompass the time zone in which the Neanderthals lived.
Well, I'll take that back. Some people perhaps do in fact descend from Neanderthals. They have the typical thick brows, archaic thinking, and especially the flat heads. If the two species met here and there, the least thing on their minds would have been sex. This Hollywood fantasy of a Neanderthal male kidnapping a Cro-Magnon woman and producing a viable hybrid after 400,000 years of divergence is more amusing than it is ridiculous. It shows no imagination whatsoever. Just appalling ignorance! People like Trinkaus, Paabo, and Wolpoff should make it a point to 'read' less Playboy and more Biology. |
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