Comparison of Modern Human, Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal - Part 1

Comparison of modern human, Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal skull casts

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Neanderthal
• Neandertal
• Cro-Magnon
• skull
• evolution

[MJdeVries89]

Where do you buy these skulls?

[TAWOPChannel]

@MJdeVries89 Bone Clones!

[TAWOPChannel]

Hi JDrosa1982, Thanks for your comments but which bit were you referring to specifically

[TAWOPChannel]

Hi Korzon, I've checked with the manufacturers and although there is some controversy about the orientation of the teeth, this is thought to be the optimal reconstruction. Other specimens would differ in the orientation of the teeth however.

[TAWOPChannel]

Hi Korzon, Thanks for the comments. Your absolutely right about basing judgements on an analysis of more than one specimen. I will check with the manufacturers about the teeth in this and other specimens. However the specimen looked to be carefully prepared with features commonly described in the literature. CroMagnon also had larger cortex volume than modern humans.

[SmippeHyrst]

@TAWOPChannel The modern human skull you used looked negroid to me (round nasal cavity, protruding jaw, retracting chin). I'm sure a modern day caucasian skull would better compare to the cro magnon. Also - the eye sockets of the cro magnons tended to be very rectangular rather than round, again characteristic of today's caucasians.

[anywayokey]

Africans began mixing with Neanderthals in the middle east about 70,000 years ago. By about 30,000 years ago the African/Neanderthal hybrid that we see today had developed. Shortly there after we begin to see animal domestication, large scale agriculture, metallurgy, city formation, mathematics and writing. Neither Neanderthal or Africans had accomplished these things in 400,000 years. The hybridization allowed for this all to happen. The hybrid was better than either parent.

[McTaggStar]

@JDrosa1982: This isn't supposed to be an argument for evolution, it's an osteological comparison. Though the succession of features in the skulls is evidence. The first thing that struck me about the neandertal skull was the resemblance to a chimpanzee skull, and any other paleontologists out there would also have recognized it.

[JDrosa1982]

I don't understand how this is evidence for evolution. The skulls you are examining do not look like something I should consider .

[Elorx]

I LOVE SKULLS! °.°

[bitethis47]

this cro magnon is from europe. he looks white...what about the cro magons of the rest of the world?? arab, chinese, russia, india, africa?? why do always refer as cromagon as white?? they dont decend from the white man and they are modern humans of the same species!!

[GazGuitarz]

@msblackmagic14 - Wrong on all accounts.