[lbo-talk] Thumbs, ecosystems, neanderthals

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Apr 17 05:58:21 PDT 2009


This stuff seems to change rapidly, and my reading is about 3-5 years old. The Neaandertals & humans coexisted for about 60k years, then after humans entered europe, the Neandertals there disappeared in about 5k years. Only speculation on the exact nature of the interaction.

Carrol

James Heartfield wrote:
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> "That they [Neanderthals] were killed off by our ancestors is unlikely"
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> I thought current thinking was that the Neanderthals failed to respond to climate change, keeping to the shore-lines, while our ancestors followed the retreating glaciers in-land, thus prospering. No doubt this is all bunkum that will be overthrown soon, if it has not already.
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> When I was a boy, my encyclopedia was so old that it still had Piltdown Man in it as the missing link.
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