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De Leonist

(225 posts)
Fri May 23, 2014, 09:22 PM May 2014

Comparing 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.



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Comparing The GOP to The Neanderthals might be insulting The Neanderthals. (Original Post) De Leonist May 2014 OP
how bout we compare them to the primordial ooze that the first life limped out of NightWatcher May 2014 #1
How about just call them assholes? Scootaloo May 2014 #2
assholes, of course, actually serve a purpose. Terra Alta May 2014 #3
This is true and I was bad about that just today.. Neaderthals were what they were for that Cha May 2014 #4
Neanderthals invented lots of early tools and languages Terra Alta May 2014 #5
here's the McCylopedia rundown MisterP May 2014 #6

Terra Alta

(5,158 posts)
3. assholes, of course, actually serve a purpose.
Fri May 23, 2014, 10:39 PM
May 2014

The GOP, however, does not.

I suggest calling them asshats and dumbasses, among other things.

Cha

(297,574 posts)
4. This is true and I was bad about that just today.. Neaderthals were what they were for that
Fri May 23, 2014, 10:42 PM
May 2014

time in history. Today's gop have no excuse.

Terra Alta

(5,158 posts)
5. Neanderthals invented lots of early tools and languages
Fri May 23, 2014, 10:43 PM
May 2014

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)
6. here's the McCylopedia rundown
Sat May 24, 2014, 05:27 PM
May 2014

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

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