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  • The Neanderthal did not look like that at all, They're trying to make it look like a modern European as if it walked down the street you wouldn't look twice. . . The skull of a Neanderthal if compared to an African skull looks much more primitive, it eye sockets are huge 3 times as big as modern man, and set high towards the forehead, this thing would of looked like a mutated gorilla. .

  • Wait this is on BBC? Doesn't the BBC propagandize that all Americans are stupid?

  • i thought neanderhtals were supposed to be short

  • @Shift4chizzle 5.1f and 200lbs

  • @plumbumbox o ok thnx. thats tiny lol i was that size when i was in year 7 or 6

  • @Shift4chizzle i know me 2

  • Neanderthals are similar to eastern Europeans, im not saying that as a derogatory term

  • HOLY SHIT i really look like him REALLY

  • @u1eyed1ll -You must be a real looker!!

  • It's no wonder why so many smart men, engineers and thinkers sprouted from Scotland, it's been thought that (due to how far north it is) that the last remnants of a lot of retreating neanderthals would have wound up in a place as northernly Scotland. Couple that little bit of extra intelligence that they had with a modern day human and it's essentially a good formula.

    I'm not insulting the Scots, far from it.

  • 1:50...holy shit..what''s my cousin doing in there =D

  • @Traces1000 -I'd like your cousin's number too......

  • The dude next door to me looks just like that!

  • @Oakleyworld -can i have his number then?

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  • @Skandinavien88 -Hilarious!!! Pot kettle black!! In the meantime I shall fantasise about making love to a nice sexy Black or Asian man, gosh they are so sexy!!! If not then this cute little Neanderthal man can do it for me, what gorgeous lips he has!!!! Played by Faroque Khan! Lovely. I find your comments really amusing so any futile comebacks are welcome x

  • @Skandinavien88 I am not going to bother arguing with uneducated individual like you-thankyou. You can't even spell & there is evidence that you have severe psychological issues, any further reply from you will be ignored. Brown is beautiful ;)

  • @Skandinavien88 -he's not a 'pigment monster'! Lovely dark skin etc which I find far more attractive than fair skin, pale eyes. Neanderthals were varied in colour like us.

  • @Crackpot7272

    Lol you are english and therefor your skin is pale and you have light eyes, so u think you're not as good as darker people?

  • @CarolineOskarsson -I have never remembered stating that I do not think I am as good as darker people, I just happen to find them very attractive & it's a personal taste just as many people like blondes etc. Suprised that you didn't object to Skandinavien88's racist comments which are more caustic than mine. You have also made a sweeping statement about my skin & eye colour for an English person-what makes you think that I am fully English & have that colouring?? Did you see me anywhere? Weird.

  • @Crackpot7272

    So why do u call people like Scandinavian racist because he thinks white people look better? It's his personal taste?

    I myself am not english but i visited England once before, a small english town. And the people there had red or light hair, freckles and blue eyes so that is how i see the english people.

  • @CarolineOskarsson I am not going to even bother communicating with you because you are obviously too dumb to see the logic in my comments & the openly racist comment from Scandinavien88 slandering black people for having lower IQ etc. No I am just going to ignore any further comment from you.

  • @Crackpot7272

    Are you english or a immigrant to England?

  • @CarolineOskarsson -mind you I shouldn't take anyone who says 'lol' & speaks in text talk seriously, pointless to reason with some people on this site.

  • please don't talk about black or white, those modern categories don't apply, we don't know how their skin was, we don't know how their features were, these people existed many thousand of centuries ago, through all that time hundreds of changes and transformations occurred, we can only speculate about some details

  • Were they the first victims of homo sapiens' racism and genocides? It seems that we haven't changed much in 25000 years...

  • @axilea67 that's what some anthropologist say but there were no evidence that we killed them off, most believed because neanderthals were adapt to cold climates, rapid fluctuations of weather caused ecological changes to which the Neanderthals could not adapt.

  • It pains me so bad to not know the entire story. Damn, I hope we learn all this stuff in the afterlife.

  • @EricTheRed03 -if there is an afterlife.

  • Give me my 2 minutes back!

  • Such cool dudes. I wish they were still around.

  • @chemdah -AMEN!!! I wish!!

  • neandathal lived in the caucus mountains, thats where you get caucasian loool

  • That guy in this video looks so stupid and ugly. There are other reconstructions of the Neanderthals which make them look no less beautiful than the people of the present time. It's all based on the artist's conception, and it is a fact that those artists have promoted the Neanderthals from ape-like beasts to people looking very similar to the people of the present time, especially the Europeans.

  • @TheRumi1403 Why say they are ugly? They looked as they looked, and no doubt found each other just as beautiful as we do each other. They would probably think we look like big babies with our delicate face and big cranium.

  • @TheRumi1403 Why say they are ugly? They looked as they looked, and no doubt found each other just as beautiful as we do each other. They would probably think we look like big babies with our delicate face and big cranium.

  • @gcrambo _agree with you totally & I happen to find this guy attractive & more so than the majority of the people today. For as long as I remember I have always been attracted to Neanderthal looking men.

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  • @TheRumi1403 He isn't ugly! I bet if he walked past you in the street you wouldn't bat an eyelid. Besides I don't think he's so ugly. I've seen men today who look a bit like that. Given also that everyone in Europe and Asia is as much as 4% Neanderthal, the Homo sapiens must have found some qualities about them attractive to interbreed with them.

  • @cardwitch91 There are many guys I see on a daily basis who I wouldn't look at twice,this cute guy is a rare exception-very cute!

  • We're here and they're gone because cro magnun mated with neanderthals to create White Europeans.

  • @xychr0 "We're here and they're gone because cro magnun mated with neanderthals to create White Europeans"

    That's inaccurate White Europeans where the result of Cro-Magnons change in skin pigmentation, given an amount of time within a given environment, in the case of Europe, one lacking in sunlight, inevitably a black Cro-Magnon skin would go through pigmentation change as to consume as much sun light as possible; and turn white, Neanderthal DNA with modern H.S generation has been washed out.

  • @advers1078 No, it has not been all washed out. Do some more reading. Then take a look around you.

  • @goingcrazyn2008 It has been washed out, in that the level of Homo Sapiens mating with other members of it species would probably make any biological consequence negligible; having said that the resulting difference of the Neanderthal x-chromosomes within non-African Homo Sapiens have yet been identified.

  • @advers1078 Uhhh... No.

  • id like to know how much "artistic licence" was used in this re-creation....

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  • Another Lame attempt at Anthropomorhing a CARNIVOROUS, NOCTURNAL, BEASTLY Ape Man..... 

  • Really? Big lips? In a cold weather climate? yeah ok. Anything to make some people comfortable.

  • Just because we share a common primate ancestor, does not mean we had the same facial features...

  • Gieco savage man!

  • if your part neanderthal doesn't that mean that you don't have a soul and therefore don't go to heaven or hell??

  • @coilzard idiot there is no heaven or hell! were all animals dosent matter what species you are!

  • @coilzard There is no heaven or hell. And no easter bunny.

  • They weren't Humans at all.. That's not correct.. they were Primates.. and looked like Primates.. if you want to see the real Neanderthal type in... "Neanderthal profile of a super predator" .... I can describe this video with one word.. Anthropomorphizing ..

  • @younwhosarmy we are primates to!

  • @younwhosarmy They looked more like us than apes, and they cooked their meat and used stone tools for hunting. DNA testing also reveals they are closely related to us. So referring to them as "apes", which I assume you were trying to do, is simply wrong.

  • @Lerakon2 Cooking meat, and using tools does not mean they looked like us... neither does being closely related.. look at the skull differences... Neanderthals had a flat face.. very gorilla like features to the skull.. as far as the nose.. that is completely anthropomorphic .... cold weather does not mean a big nose... it could just as easily mean a flat ape like nose, as exhibited in cold weather apes...

  • @younwhosarmy Your arguments are silly at best. So I guess you are going to claim people today who are very hairy are apes as well? My god ...

    Not to mention their skeletons look much more like us than apes. Their brain size was similar to ours. You really are picking at straws here ...

    They were less evolved than us most likely, but not by that much.

  • @Lerakon2 I understand it's scary to think that they hunted us, raped us, and ATE us.... but that is exactly the case... Genetic evidence proves they impregnated our Women, and NOT the other way around... and that is because if you saw a real, actual Neanderthal; you would be looking at a Monstrous Savage Super PREDATOR.. Who was CARNIVOROUS, NOCTURNAL raider.... Neanderthal is Why we Fear the Night !! Look at those eye sockets !! 2 or 3 times bigger ! and a flat gorilla like face !!

  • @younwhosarmy Also I forgot to mention, it has been proven with genetic testing that 2-4% of our DNA comes from interbreeding with Neanderthals. They would not have been able to interbreed with apes due to the genetic differences, just like we can't. But they could interbreed with us.

  • @Lerakon2 They could Rape you and there wouldn't be a thing you could do about it !! Then they would eat you and Shit you out !! You are clinging to Old ideas... Danny Vendramini hit the nail on the head... His theory continues to stand up to ALL the New evidence... You and everyone need to re-think there ideas about who Neanderthal Man really was... The Stuff of Nightmare...!

  • @younwhosarmy Muslims are the prehistoric stuff of nightmares also ,so chill on the savagery of an unknown entity.

    The 2-4% genetic contribution they gave has only been found in mtdna so far.Most viable Neanderthal remains show they had red hair.

  • @Lerakon2, it is SPECULATED that 1-4% of the genetic makeup of several modern races MIGHT be linked to neanderthal ancestry, but it has not been proven. It is not confirmed beyond a doubt that there was enough genetic similarity between neanderthals and cro-magnons for offspring to result from such a union.

  • @FlyUnicornsFly Well there's enough evidence in my book to assume it happened. You're welcome to write a paper on how the research claiming this to be the case is wrong, but until the mainstream scientific community relevant to this field accepts it then I'll stick with the interbreeding hypothesis.

    And regardless, my point in the argument was that the Neanderthals were very similar to us. This can be seen in their DNA, it is much closer to ours than chimp's DNA.

  • @Lerakon2, you're welcome, of course, to make the assumption that interbreeding took place & might eventually be proven right. The fact remains that you're ASSUMING &, given that you used the word "assume" yourself, I don't need to remind you that it's an assumption on your part, for the time being. I didn't think my comments were that impressive that you'd suggest I write a scientific treatise, but thank you! :) Perhaps YOU can do that, as I'm a professional person w/o sufficient time for it.

  • @FlyUnicornsFly your previous comment seemed to indicate that there was very little evidence for the interbreeding and that it was just "speculation", if I misunderstood you then I apologize. But from what I have read and heard they have very good evidence of this having happened, by looking at the DNA of modern humans and Neanderthals. I never said it was proven beyond ALL doubt, but then again "proof" can be just evidence sufficient to produce belief in its truth.

  • man that neanderthal has a way thicker ribcage compared to those guys

  • @diva123abc You're just as Racist as the KKK.. You probably do not know that the Black race once ruled the known World.. They have also "historically" been Slave Masters.... You.. like all racist lack humility !! Judge not any person by the color of their skin...

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  • lol one problem the tallest people in the world are white and come from norway and an other nordic countrys and the strongest aswell. so the whole cold adaptiondoesnt make senes. and most people in hot places are small actually in africa people are small aswell. very rarely big. in the US most black people are not even 6 feet all the tall ass niggers are on tv. average height in most noridc countrys for a man is 6 foot 2 thats average lol average in the US is like 5 foot 8

  • @TAKEMARU666 i dont take crap like that unless you give me a logical accurate recent article thats states that blacks are sub human based on skin colour otherwise what you are saying is invalid and just a lie to me

  • @besmart78 well as far evolution is concerned its proof. just like people dont have tons hair like chimps do anymore, and black skin was the original skin and white evovled fro ma mutation aswell. same thing. i personally think were all human and that great but as far as science is concerned blacks are down the evolutionary chain

  • @TAKEMARU666 a mutation doesnt necessarily mean that a gene is evolving upwards... it just means that its adapted to a new environment and new set of elements. simply put, not better, just different.

  • @kidtastic78 well said

  • @besmart78 Blacks are inferior based on IQ testing and brain mass, also look at their condition.....is it not obvious to you?

    it has NOTHING to do with skin color, its your lack of progress and mentality as a whole....

  • @mrtundra45 Even if blacks were "less intelligent"

    That makes other races superior in intelligence, not more valuable people just because they're smarter.

    By your logic, a mans life is worth more than a childs.

  • @AgrivatedKillah that didnt make a lick of sense, my point exactly...lol

  • @besmart78 I think Blacks are the last variation of homo sapiens actually. Intellect had already been developed. One of the things I have been considering is that white man is the result of interbreeding between neanderthals and blacks, and well, neanderthals where not really sub-human, just white and a little different as much as the australian aboriginal peoples

  • @QuantumProphet Black people COULDN'T have been the last variation of homo sapiens because science has already proved that they are the FIRST homo Sapiens Sapiens. Plus The Grimaldi people left Africa and conqured europe 33,000 years ago. Cro-Magnon came on the scene 20,000 years ago. The Grimaldi left traces of their intellect all around europe. Infact, in the Museum of Natural History (vienna) is the oldest representation of the human body made by the Grimaldi called the VENUS OF WILLENDORF.

  • @Skandinavien88 agreed humans have fuck up the world but whose fucking it up more are the humans that think they can play god

  • 1:51 OMG ITS 50 CENT! XD

  • @Aerochalklate ...lol

  • @Aerochalklate I thought it was 50 too lol looks just like him lol

  • @Aerochalklate lol :))

  • @Aerochalklate racist fuck yourself..

  • @kaspar1081 do u even know what racist means? what a dumbass

  • @Aerochalklate its the white people ancestors

  • @ekkkm i aint dumb man! geesus

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  • @Aerochalklate It can't be 50 Cent because he's too African and all non africans are part Neanderthol, according to a video on YouTube called ALL NON AFRICANS LIVING TODAY ARE PART NEANDERTHOL. At 1:58 he looks more like Lou Ferringo !  LOL Fact.

  • @truthhitmanisback its a fuckin joke. GET IT.

  • @Aerochalklate NO!!! You people always do it at the expence of black people, and it's been going on for the longest time. You're so ignorant its obvious you're part Neanderthol !

  • @truthhitmanisback im asian dude i aint part neanderthol! XD

  • @Aerochalklate That's because you've been brainwashed into thinking that black people were nothing but Jungle bunnies ! Now the european scientists, not afro-centrics, are saying that EVERYONE living who is not an African is part Neanderthol, including asians and caucasians.

  • @truthhitmanisback yo, my cousin is black and u are real sensitive.

  • @Aerochalklate maybe you're Just being inconsiderate.

  • @truthhitmanisback Neanderthal.

  • @truthhitmanisback Careful about statements like that. All you need is one counterexample and your whole theory falls apart.

  • @zhzhuiui Prove it !

  • @truthhitmanisback Well, not all non Africans are part Neanderthal, but all Europeans are. I think the DNA amount is up to 10%.

  • @truthhitmanisback no that is actually not true

    only some people who are from a few select countries have like 2% of their DNA from neanderthals, only like 4 or 5 countries have a small percentage of neanderthal DNA. for example canadians do not have neanderhtal dna, neither od british etc

  • @Aerochalklate racist cracker

  • @Skandinavien88 The size of the brain determines the CAPACITY of intelligence a creature CAN have. Neanderthals just didn't put their brains to full potential.

  • Neandertals, particularly, went extinct due to the fact that Homo sapiens out competed them. Homo sapiens have extra connections between three regions of the brains that allow them an extra level of thinking. Due to this ability, which is evidenced by their production of art, etc. they were better able to communicate across multiple social groups, allowing for more reproductive success, as they were less isolated than Neandertals.

  • @Skandinavien88 since when did blacks have big pointy nose, huge brow ridge , straight silky brown hair ,and white pale skin i think those are actually white features the only thing i can find on that creature that has african traits is just the lips everything else is not btw neaderthals were know to have red hair mostly and freckles like white people

  • @besmart78

    new dna evidence says non-africans are partly neanderthal

  • @Skandinavien88 bigger brains doesnt always mean intelligent see this video "are Neanderthals simple minded or intelligent" watch it even a white person did this test so im a full species for i am 100% humana and you are you are an admixture of neaderthal and modern day human god made humans and neaderthals and human and neaderthals made you personally i dont think your gods creation your more of a mutation which makes u subhuman

  • @besmart78 mutation and evolution are one in the same we all came from africa long ago and black is the first skin color wich means the least evolved so actually you are subhuman if you are black just to clear things up and neanderthal were humans just a different type from evolution. so actually blacks are the most subhuman then neanderthals then white people are the most modern.

  • thank god those are not my ancestors yay for africa

  • I believe sapiens and neanderthals interbred, you can see certain neanderthal characteristics in some people, im not saying this about everyone but as sapiens and neanderthals were so similar maybe we interbred and neanderthals never did actualy die out.

  • NEANDERTALS. HAVE SURVIVED, I BELIEVE A SELECT FEW SURVIVED THE ICE AGES, THEY LIVED IN THE ICE CAVERNS, POSSIBLY BECAME HIGHLY EVOLVED AS AN INDIVIDUAL. THEY PROBABLY BECAME VERY WHITE AND PALE, LIGHT BLUE EYES, AND BUILT FOR EXTREME COLD. tHIS WOULD EXPLAIN ALOT OF THE WIERD RACES DESCRIBED IN ANCIENT RELIGIONS. GODLY RACES, THAT LOOK WAY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT AFRICAN, ASIAN, AND MIDDLE EASTERN FOLKS LOOK LIKE!

  • there has to be dna from neanderthals in our modern race, ive seen alot of people that look to have the same features and body shape!

  • @EternalGreen2012 yea my nickname is neanderthal lol. always been superstrong and i am white but i look alot like this guy lol. i am german/english from what i know. but probably just euro all mixed.

  • white people till this day STILL HAVE NO ASS LMAO!!

  • Very intreresting. We here in Gibraltar lost our place in history. The neanderthal man should have been called the Gibraltar woman. Gibraltar has proved that it was one of the last places in the world that was neandethals inhabited.

  • Neandertals were off shoots of an archaic form (Rhodesensis, Hiedelbergensis, or one of the sapient versions) of hominin that came in from the caucasses into Europe more than 100 millenia ago. That would explain the diversity of the different base pair sequences. The older Neandertals (western) have been found to be incompatible with modern H.Sapiens, but the ones that continued to breed with the archaic hominins, became compatible with the modern H. Sapiens that eventually came in from Africa.

  • This, outside of a not too complete the sequence, would explain why there has been such a question about two different types of DNA sequences. H. Sapiens did not evolve, but they could have bred with the younger Neandertals because of their continued interaction with the earlier hominin species that made us as they ventured east. It is those specimens that demonstrate our 4% , or so in those peoples that originate from the east. Both Neandertals, and H. Sapiens have a common link from that area

  • He look just like my teacher (appart the open mouth)

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  • Where can i fnd this whole documentary????

  • A legit video game would be the time era of humans and neanderthals, and just trying to survive in daily life. Who else thinks that would be cool! You can choose like human or Neanderthal, and you can be a hunter, or whatever, and you have to fight sometimes, and hunt, and find food and follow animals and track them and stuff. That would be awesome! =)

  • I love how they exaggerate the face of the Neanderthal and make make them uglier than they actually were lol. Better face reconstructions show that Neanderthals looked just like an ugly Human. Probably better than white trash even.

  • @bluegama500

    other recreations show that they were indistinguishable from modern humans.

  • @arsjth Yes probably. I bet if we all went extinct and another advanced species came along in the future, they would imagine us as big,ugly, hairy, stupid creatures.

  • @bluegama500 Since soft tissue does not survive we don't know if they were hairy or not. It's the imagination of those who want to portray them as more ape like.

  • @arsjth Scientific studies have shown that Neanderthals weren't actually so ape like, they looked a lot like an ugly person.

  • The Neanderthals looked like Mongols LOL

  • nature is so intellegent

  • Anyone can look as different as they are (weird, freak, ugly, pretty, fat, skinny)...at least they have a kind heart and are not cruel to others.

  • what,s happened in new york?

  • 0:30 Cheese!! xD

  • look like my neighbours

  • No matter how much we argue, the genes still say no.......

  • Why is neanderthal always played with his mouth hanging open stupidly and looking confused and angry? Why tip his head in puzzlement at everything?

    2:55 shows the fabricated connecting cartilage and breast plate. The size and shape of those dictate the shape of the ribcage. How did they decide how those should look? It also appears that the ribs are set too wide as they go down, creating a stair step effect instead of a smooth wall.

    I think their prejudice shows just a smidge.

  • @molly1117 I see the casting everywhere they shortened and lengthened things.Rediculus today they say they have whole skeletons because they buried the dead lets see those.

  • where is the neanderthal woman? maybe she can't take the appearance of nenderthal man.....

    more make-up please!!!

  • @12391861: Heh. She went over and posed for National Geographic. Google Neandertal woman.

  • my drummer is a neanderthal.

  • we have a neanderthal rap artist. 50 cent.lol jk

  • I have seen them, they watch WWF wrestling, listen to Rap music and like to blame other people for there faliures(KKK, Whitepower, Skinheads,Crips,Bloods ect...).

  • @tarvelboy You forgot communists, creationists and greeks

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  • @tarvelboy Neanderthal died out many many years ago and there skin color was white so shut the fuck up you idiot

  • @bizarewigga Dude I saw your page you like to troll everbody and when you say things

    like you do It makes you look stupid and slow.

  • @bizarewigga neanderthals have not died out. There is neanderthal dna in 1/4 of people today. Do some research please

  • @arsjth wow your a fucking theistic idiot

  • @bizarewigga

    its embarrassing when u atheists dont do research & abuse people out of your bigotry & stupidity.

    Please keep up with the latest research if you want to contribute to a science discussion.

    "According to a new DNA study, most humans have a little Neanderthal in them—at least 1 to 4% of a person's genetic makeup.

    The study uncovered the first solid genetic evidence that "modern" humans interbred with their Neanderthal neighbors, who mysteriously died out about 30,000 years ago."

  • @arsjth dude your so fucking stupid

    its already bin proven that we are not descended from neanthertal

  • @bizarewigga DOH!

    Ker Than

    for National Geographic News

    Published May 6, 2010

    The next time you're tempted to call some oaf a Neanderthal, you might want to take a look in the mirror.

    According to a new DNA study, most humans have a little Neanderthal in them—at least 1 to 4 percent of a person's genetic makeup.

    The study uncovered the first solid genetic evidence that "modern" humans—or Homo sapiens—interbred with their Neanderthal neighbors, who mysteriously died out about 30,000 years ago.

  • I had a guy like this in high school...and I know Ive seen some others on the road and around the way...I think there are still people around that are neaderthals.

  • @attilaclark AHAHAHAAH one of my ex colleagues looked EXACTLY like that and i'm not exaggerating , i am dead on serious .

    He was slightly dark skinned and he had a speaking problem , it was squishy i dunno how to explain , he was talking fast and u could barely understand him sometimes .

  • @attilaclark It has been proven that modern humans can have anywhere from 0% to 4% Neanderthal DNA

  • @kyreks4 Ok yea cool! i've heard that... but i've never seen any sources can you please derect me to this info?

  • @mcfrandy Sure! time has an article on it, "google" neaderthal dna

  • @mcfrandy: Google for Svante Paabo at the Max Planck Institute for Genetics at Leipzig. He was the chief scientist.

  • @attilaclark i agree ive seen people that look just like this

  • @attilaclark your an idiot

  • if that body shape helps retain heat in a cold environment then we should see that shape in the eskimos correct? what a load of nonsense.

    its a reconstruction of one neanderthal not all neanderthals.

    it could be unique to that person. why do we not here that from scientists? they are too keen to draw conclusions of historical significance from too smaller sample. Do all neanderthals have that shape rib cage?

    always shown to be primitive2.yet they had art, music buried their dead etc.

  • eskimos have been isolated for no more than 15.000 years, honestly you hope to see major evolutionary changes? Neanderthals have been separated from H.Sapiens at least 200.000 years.

  • Yes because evolutionary changes are caused by???? natural selection?

    survival of the fittest. if neanderthals adapted especially to th cold it was to prevent them dying out wasnt it!

    Y would the same cold not have that affect on Eskimos? because they wear warm clothes/skins & use fire.

    If the cold hasnt affected eskimos now...when will it? Y would it when their survival clearly doesnt depend on it?

    Neanderthals also lived & mixed with H sapiens.u wouldnt recognize them as another species.

  • @arsjth: ToE says that they will have, in 200,000 yrs, made adaptations to their environment. For most of that time their environment is cold, but its a lot more than that. It's mountainous, forested, seasonal, watered, etc, etc. All of that plays a part, and then there's competition, which is also adapting. Then again, it appears they didn't die out; they merged. Evolution is slow, requiring thousands of generations, usually. Adaptation is faster, reusing genes that haven't yet been trashed.

  • @puncheex

    "Evolution is slow, requiring thousands of generations, usually. Adaptation is faster, reusing genes that haven't yet been trashed."

    please explain the difference between evolution and adaptation?

  • @arsjth: Adaptation involves using the mix of genes already in the population (though perhaps not in all individuals). Many of these may be genes that were useful in a former environment; as they become not useful they tend to mutate away to total uselessness, but if it was not overly long ago some of the gene, or one that is mutated but not in the active area may become useful once again. This and epigenetics allow adaptation within a few to very few generations. See wiki, "adaptation".

  • @puncheex

    so you are saying adaptation works on genes that are there but evolution works on genes that arent there?

  • @arsjth: Like most pithy comments, this is half true and half false.

    Evolution doesn't work on individuals; it works on populations. Populations have variation - diversity, in the modern phrase. If a individual has an odd trait that proves useful to a group because of sudden change in the environment, then the group doesn't need to wait for a mutation, does it?

    In stead of trying to trap me in some sort of heresy, why don't you try learning and understanding how things work instead?

  • @puncheex

    same old tripe from you guys who can never explain what you believe but merely tell us to go and learn what it is you believe.

    its clear you cant explain it or you would.

    i already know what you believe. you just cant explain it without it sounding like its doubtful....because thats how it is.

  • @arsjth: Unfortunately for you, nature is not a simpleton. It is a complex system and it has complex behaviors. I mentioned above a reference that does a good job explaining it; apparently you didn't bother to read it, you just declare it unfit with whatever your word du jour is and high-five yourself. If certainty is your goal rather than accuracy, them you are apparently headed in the right direction.

  • @arsjth as a fellow australian I cant believe we have people in our country that still deny evolution, how did this retardation happen?! you explain how we have a progression of species in the fossil record without evolution mate.

  • @Interactivesystems

    as usual you equivocate on the meaning. who denies things change? That is one meaning of evolution that no one denies.

    How did you become accepting of things that are unprovable?

    If you accept that all creatures came from one common ancestor then u believe all genes came from one gene, so genes made themselves, what a wonderful miraculous accident. Hey no problem just dont say that you have proof as you dont have proof of how that first answer came to being.

  • @arsjth nothing is provable except maths mate. get out of the stoneage