They were probably just as smart or even smarter than us individually. We just network better.

Early Homo Sapiens bred with Homo Neanderthalensis. Twenty percent of the H. Neanderthalensis genome is preserved in humans of non-African descent. We are them.

Masters from Yale etc. Interesting result for sure.

Interesting.

We are considering sending our samples in. I'll probably set the record for caveman DNA.

but is still reportedly greater than 90% of the population.

23andme is an interesting site/proposition -- very interesting revelations about one's ancestry, but privacy advocates are disturbed that their database could be exploited in the future for nefarious purposes.

Not quite as craggy, more like a 3rd/4th gen N'thal.

Maybe you mean 2-4% of individual human genomes are Neanderthal genes?

My apologies.

Lacking the white matter. Remains to be seen if this is the reason for perceived lower iqs than us Dolphins also fit the brain/mass higher than us but a lack of tools etc is due to no hands and can't have fire in a wet environment but again, the jury is still out if they are or not smarter than us

We don't know anything about "smarter".

Then just leaves it

and making house.

They broke off the ones on the ground to give themselves a fairly level floor for their sleeping place and they used the broken off pieces to make a boundary of their living space. The rest were put in a few piles.

and they were far from stupid and we know from the hyoid bone we finally found that they were capable of speech. In fact, they share a lot more DNA with us than our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, do.

In fact, the match was close enough that we interbred with them, a smart thing to do when resources needed to be pooled and knowledge of how to survive shared. They might have looked a little odd, but they were as human as we are, their evolution taking them in a slightly different direction so they could survive the last Ice Age outside Africa. Check out some of the facial reconstructions done by forensic sculptors, you wouldn't stare at them on the subway.

What they found is that the Neanderthals tended to stay put in their family groups, hunting and gathering in different spots in their territory at different times of the year. Homo Sap. tended to wander around, following herds from place to place and following the ripening vegetation as seasonal warming occurred. We didn't slaughter them, we simply outnumbered and outbred them.

They had fair skin and red hair. Here's a kid, reconstructed in France:

You corrected his joke with accuracy. Now it's damned hilarious...

I'm sure they were very adapted to their environment. I think it's really interesting how they're discovering now that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens mingled their genes. When I was young, such a thing would have been thought impossible.

pretty clever and inventive. These stalagmite Stonehenges were soulful early works of art.

These people weren't just some hand-dragging, grunting oafs.

All around bad news for Trump. Enough to give him a bad case of Neanderthal envy.

92% of the population at 23andme. Everything else in test results was boring as all hell.

Here are two tests done:
You have 1 Neanderthal variant associated with a reduced tendency to sneeze after eating dark chocolate.
You have 1 Neanderthal variant associated with your height.

And yep, I attribute my general vigor and creative streak to it.

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know I have 311 variants. The person with the most variants (in their database) has 387.

However, assuming the person with the most in their database has 4% Neanderthal, then that 387 is 4% of 9675. Therefore, I'd be 3.21% Neanderthal. But I'm just guessing here.

They gave out all kinds of medical and trait oriented info that they couldn't for quite some time because the FDA wanted their cut I guess. It's improved somewhat now but they still don't give quite as much info.

things I just don't want to know. I can't even remember now what I looked up. Nothing that said I was a genius and eminently good-looking and would live to be 140. OTOH, I didn't find anything that DIDN'T say that!

Cool article, thanks for posting this, I love reading about new discoveries like this.

Peace

That's really interesting, thank you for posting.

they never put the seat down, and forget to call?

guess i will have to trust my pastor science advisor

We'll get the Homo Sapiens to pay!

It kind of validates that old song "I'm A Neanderthal Man" and the Neanderthal girl mentioned in the tune.

I always thought we did not vanish them, we merged with them...to put it nicely.

Fascinating.

Other ethnicities not do much.

damn

Thanks for posting!