I have been watching on Natgeotv their series on the Neanderthals. I am amused how now that since 1998 the idea of interbreeding with modern humans is gaining ground. The Foxp2 gene for language was found in neanderthal dna that is the *same* as ours. So either we got it from them or they got it from "us".
There have long been reports of neanderthals in the middle east to asia. In fact, A case was even made for them surviving to the present day.
The neanderthal theory has more solid science behind it than vaccines. I wonder why it is so horrible to think autism is from mommy and daddy. Anyway they have reconstructed this face above from dna. They dubbed her - wilma. I think she looks autistic. For the sake of completeness and fairness here is an opposing view.
There have long been reports of neanderthals in the middle east to asia. In fact, A case was even made for them surviving to the present day.
The neanderthal theory has more solid science behind it than vaccines. I wonder why it is so horrible to think autism is from mommy and daddy. Anyway they have reconstructed this face above from dna. They dubbed her - wilma. I think she looks autistic. For the sake of completeness and fairness here is an opposing view.
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I think she looks like mama Fratelli from the Goonies, well a bit younger than that.
Patrick
Human, but not homo-sapien. I don't know enough anthropology to know if neanderthals are regarded as "human".
When I first heard that hypothesis, it sounded interesting, but not so much anymore. The way I see it now is that there must have been "autistics" among the Neanderthal as well. You know what I mean?
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