Despite what you might conclude from looking at certain hockey players in the NHL humans were not descended from Neanderthals.
I know I know, I can't just drop a bomb on you like that and not give you a source!
I bet you haven't heard anything that contrary to how you were raised since the Second Vatican in October, 1965 declared that Jews weren't all going to hell for killing Jesus .
That decision led the biggest exodus from the Catholic Church in history and this will probably do more for getting "intelligent design theory" into more high school curriculums all over the country.
A computer analysis of the skulls of modern humans, Neanderthals, monkeys and apes shows that we are substantially different, physically, from those early humans.
Yeah and that is despite what your eyes tell you to be true.
New York University paleoanthropologist Katerina Harvati said Neanderthals should be considered a separate species from Homo sapiens, and not just a sub-species.
"We interpret the evidence presented here as supporting the view that Neanderthals represent an extinct human species and therefore refute the regional continuity model for Europe ," she and colleagues wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
I don't care what they say Neanderthals still look like some Russian NHL Hockey players to me.
I mean it's the forehead, the confused look on their faces, the fascination with shiny things and their reverence for fire.
It's a dead give away.
I know I am probably just falling victim to the stereotype.
I admit I have never seen a Neanderthal in artist depictions as anything but a muscular Ron Perelman looking white man.
And I am not alone on this because despite the new evidence that has come up some anthropologists still niggardly believe that Neanderthals still contributed to the ancestry of modern Europeans and they probably always will.
And this is despite the old evidence that said that there isn't any Neanderthal-Cro-Magnon DNA in the modern gene pool.
I dunno. Now we are suddenly supposed to just accept that we had two species of humans on the earth, the new hotness and the old and busted?