Re: NEANDERTHALS

The Neanderthal wwas a very advanced bipedal ape with huge dark-world eyes and a fur coat.  We could no more interbred with that than we could with horses.
On 4/1/24 11:43, JTEM wrote:

 Here's some media brainwashing that's pretending to be
all about SCIENCE but is really about protecting the
Out of Africa purity narrative...
 https://www.inverse.com/science/why-did-neanderthals-go-extinct-theory
 :  Why did humans take over the world while our closest
:  relatives, the Neanderthals, became extinct?
 Neanderthals were humans.
 There no definitive means for determining where the "Different
Species" line is drawn between two closely related POPULATIONS,
but the single BEST and most accurate test is interbreeding.
 It's not definitive by any means but it is the closest test we
have to definitive. So why is it ignored in the case of
Neanderthals?
 No reason.
 So the preponderance of the evidence does come down in favor
of Same Species," while this story is pretending that
Neanderthals belonged to a separate genus!
 :  Two hundred and fifty thousand years ago, Europe and western
: Asia were Neanderthal lands.
 Were they?  How many unambitious Neanderthal finds can you
cite, dating past 130,000 years or so?
 :  Forty thousand years ago Neanderthals disappeared from Asia
:  and Europe
 This cite says 24 to 28k years ago:
 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-rock-of-gibraltar-neanderthals-last-refuge-42545293/
 Brace for it. Here's that Out of Africa purity:
 :  Modern hunter-gatherers provide our best guess at how early
:  humans and Neanderthals lived. People like Namibia’s Khoisan
:  and Tanzania’s Hadzabe
 Neanderthals were humans and it's excessively unlikely that
they could have lived in a similar manner. Else, how would they
have arrived in Europe in the first place?
 And here's more idiocy pretending to be science:
 :  What points to this is evidence that Neanderthals had lower
:  genetic diversity.
 They're comparing Neanderthal "Genetic Diversity" to that in
people TODAY.
 If you can't grasp why that's wrong, leave. Shut off your
computer. Go away.
 Next, they move from fake science to wild speculation:
 :  Neanderthals, strong and skilled with spears were likely good
: fighters. Lightly-built humans probably countered by using
: bows to attack at range.
 Finally, they close with even more wild speculation:
 :  It may be then that an ability to
 If all you've got is disinformation & speculation, why would
you even type the piece, much less publish it?
 Still, more than enough to fool the collective...