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New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal
ThinkComp writes "In what could possibly be a major blow to a scientific consensus that has held for decades, recent research suggests that the traditional conception of Neanderthals being "stupider" than Homo sapiens may in fact be misleading. As articles about the research findings state, 'early stone tool technologies developed by our species, Homo sapiens, were no more efficient than those used by Neanderthals.' The data used in the study is available on-line along with a visual description of the process used."
Now what am I supposed to call my brother-in-law?
So easy a caveman can do it.
This is refuted by the discussions on this board. There are stupid neanderthals posting here every day!
as netherlands...
The Homo sapiens bought out the Neanderthals tools and buried them, thus ensuring the success of Homo sapien tools.
--- What?
The researchers found that their research was so easy, a homo sapiens could do it.
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
they embraced Open Source. Weapons. Tools. Technology as a whole. Homo Sapiens stole everything from them, made some improvements and made it Closed Source. Neanderthals had to buy their own inventions back. The competitive disadvantage put them under.
Let this be a warning to you all.
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Netcraft confirms it: the Neanderthal is dead!
There was no scientific consensus that Neandethal was stupid.
... there is no scientific consensus that the average homo sapiens is smart, either.
They simply couldn't admit their own mistakes and learn from them; preferring self-rightious extinction over humbling erudition. Those few who remain are called Neocons.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
I think this is all just part of Geico's back-pedal campaign.
They realize they screwed up and pissed off a bunch of Neanderthals.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
After finding that the Neanderthals had purchased an iPhone 3g when no 3g service was available 20,000 years ago.
They reposted their original findings that Neanderthals are dumb.
I mean, I know we succeeded and everything, but doesn't it suck a little bit to be VHS?
This is my sig. It's prescription, I swear. I need it for reading things... on the other side of things
One works with me a few cubicles over... They're called the telecommunications group!
As a park ranger at Yosimite once said, "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."
But calling preconceived ideas "pop culture" is stretching it a bit too much. Unless you want to start a debate about Pirates vs. Ninjas :)
But there's scietific conseus that ninjas are cooler than pirates.
The Creationist mods have,to mod critics down. Their invisible superbeings aren't capable of doing things on their own. And as a bonus: every downmod of rational thinking gets them one step closer to Heaven!
Maybe this just means that we're getting dumb and dumberer as time goes on (backwards evolution)? I mean, if the Ancients, the race that built the Stargates, were fracking brilliant enough to reach ascension, then maybe the Neanderthals ascended, too. What's left were those of us that were too dumb to ascend,...
FTA:
Mr Eren believes the most likely explanation is that Homo sapiens were simply able to breed more quickly.
"It's not that we were better than them," he said. "It's just that there were more of us."
Damn we're lame. We zerg-rushed them before they could advance in their tech tree and now they're extinct. :(
how is babby formed?
Incorrect. It's the other way around. It's been shown with Science that pirates are so cool that they actually offset global warming. There are graphs that prove this. Ninjas, conversely, are hot. At least... girl ninjas are. 8)
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
The Creationist mods have,to mod critics down. Their invisible superbeings aren't capable of doing things on their own.
Maybe they are. Have faith, and remember you don't get to meta-moderate God.
Yeah, but the thing you didn't notice was that the park ranger was an impostor - a bear that had eaten the human park ranger. Dumb humans.
Maybe they are. Have faith, and remember you don't get to meta-moderate God.
Only because God doesn't post on Slashdot.
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Did last time.
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
Didn't get a low ID number and is now too embarrassed?
I drank what? -- Socrates
*worships*
While I generally come down on the side of pirates in this debate, I must disagree. Pirate chicks are hot.
What do you mean? Of course its a chick...I mean look at her.
Wait a minute...oh...nevermind...
As a park ranger at Yosimite once said, "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."
Some bears can even spell Yosemite!
God doesn't post on Slashdot.
What is he, too good for us? What a self-righteous bastard.