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Manga Girls Beware: Extra Large Eyes Caused Neanderthal's Demise

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports on a new study of prehistoric skulls which suggests that Neanderthals became extinct because they had larger eyes than our species. As a consequence of having extra sized eyes, an average 6 millimeters larger in radius, more of their backside brain volume was devoted to seeing, at the expense of frontal lobe high-level processing of information and emotions. This difference affected their ability to innovate and socialize the way we, modern people (Homo Sapiens Sapiens) do. When the last Ice Age set on 28,000 years ago, Neanderthals had no sewn clothes and no large organized groups to rely on each other, hastening their fall. Yet, they were not stupid, brutish creatures as portrayed in Hollywood films, they were very, very smart, but not quite in the same league as the Homo Sapiens of Cromagnon."

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  1. But...... by wbr1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    We all know those big-eyed anime little neanderthal girls were killed of by tentacle monster rapists, thus preventing procreation!

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    1. Re:But...... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh sure, they always blame us tentacle monsters. We're always the villains if we show up in movies at all. Have you ever stopped to think that we have feelings too?

      And feelers. Lots and lots of feelers.

  2. Re:Idle speculation: Size Matters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I say BS! Neanderthals died out because the females preferred the larger penis of the Homo Sapiens.

  3. Am I the only one? by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 4, Funny

    I first read that as "they were not stupid, british creatures".

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  4. Re:Idle speculation: Size Matters by pnutjam · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, back then they used to wrap them around their waist, unfortunately all the interbreeding with small peni'ed Neanderthal has left us with the 10 inches we have today. (Doesn't everyone else have 10 inches?)

  5. Re:This just in by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny