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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsComparing The GOP to The Neanderthals might be insulting The Neanderthals.
According to a fairly recent study the idea that Neanderthals were less intelligent than Homo Sapiens might be wrong.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/neanderthal-intelligence-modern-humans_n_5242765.html
Instead of "superior" Human intelligence causing us to outcompete them it might just be that the slowly but surely decreasing population of Neanderthals were eventually "absorbed" into the expanding Homo Sapien population through interbreeding.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Rather than insult our mutual ancestors.
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)The GOP, however, does not.
I suggest calling them asshats and dumbasses, among other things.
Cha
(297,574 posts)time in history. Today's gop have no excuse.
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)and were likely the first of our ancestors to wear clothing. They made quite a contribution to the early civilized world. The GOP has contributed nothing but lies, hate, and corruption.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)it's basically a billennium of constant little slopping motions, isn't it? and the poor things were almost called H. stupidus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_human_admixture_with_modern_humans
for sapiens it's even weirder: most Europeans have been there since the Ice Age, their closest relatives on the fathers' side are Native Americans and then Papuans; the Norse are Balkan and their relatives are the Arabs