Monday February 4, 2013, 9:11 pm
I have met a few in my time

Monday February 4, 2013, 11:46 pm
LOL...that's a good one Rose! :-) Thanks Kevin! Very interesting!

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 5:15 am
you are FUNNY Rose...:)......... interesting post though......thanks Kevin....

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 5:16 am
Right, Rose; -we still have some ignorant neanderthals to deal with...

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 5:17 am
Very interesting article, thank you very much!

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 6:15 am
Very interesting. I have been reading that the original "modern" humans destroyed the Neanderthals when they came into contact (if they did, now I don't know either) with them because they were smarter and more cunning. Nothing much has changed since then, huh?

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 6:37 am
I used to know someone who looked just like the guy in the picture. Maybe since there's only one DNA the gene got turned on somehow? Hmmm now about our politicians.....

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 6:47 am
Very interesting - thanks

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 9:34 am
TY for posting Kevin. I saw a very good episode on Nova about this very thing and then another special about the level of sophistication of Neanderthal flint-knapping. Ideas are being revised about Neanderthals; that they weren't as primitive as previously thought, that there may have been a great deal of variation amongst Neanderthal populations; and some of us 'modern humans' carry Neanderthal DNA. Fascinating.

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 1:28 pm
Thanks Kevin--they keep changing their minds about this topic.

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 3:29 pm
very interesting, thanks Kevin for sharing this

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 3:57 pm
Thanks for the post. We continue to find out that what we thought we knew isn't always accurate. Keep an open mind!

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 4:23 pm
I always enjoy learning. And Rose, loved your comment.

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 5:47 pm
You can imagine it, current humans talking jibberish circles around them and literally talking them to death or smiling and friendly and then stabbing them in the back the minute they turned away. Oh and probably luring the the women with bright shiny objects and various wonders of nature then truning them into sex slaves and finally just slaves....and getting a good laugh over it...

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 5:54 pm
This stuff is just so fascinating!

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 7:10 pm
I am still at a loss as to why they died out. The only thing I can think of is their diet requirements were deadly to their own species survival-they were complete carnivores and did not consider fish as food. They only hunted very large/dangerous/deadly game such as mastadons. Many would go out on a hunt, and only a few would come back(alive).

After weaning from mom, they ate nothing, I mean nothing but meat. and probably much of it raw. They alos had no understanding of time passing/ ie. the seasons coming and going on a cyclical cycle. So they didn't prepare for winter times the way homo sapiens did.

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 7:37 pm
Thanks

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 8:43 pm
LOL Rose Thanks Kevin

Tuesday February 5, 2013, 11:10 pm
very interesting

Wednesday February 6, 2013, 5:20 am
Great read,thanks. But they didn't die off ages ago...THEY ARE HERE among us!!!!!