Re: On Neanderthals, with me complaining

On Feb 22, 7:01 pm, JTEM <jte...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here's more recent news on Neanderthals, some I
have to totally disagree with...

: A team of palaeontologists has concluded that
: Neanderthals were more mobile than previously
: thought. The findings came after analysis of a
: 40,000-year-old tooth discovered in Greece's
: Peloponnese region According to scientists
: from Greece and the Max Planck Institute in
: Germany, metal levels in the tooth show the
: Neanderthal had travelled at least 20km from
: his birthplace.

http://tinyurl.com/37kvy9

http://tinyurl.com/33h2kq

Maybe it's just our upbringing -- most of us having
been raised with the idea of Neanderthals being
little more than naked apes -- but I always assumed
and/or expected Neanderthal males would split
off from the group, forming new groups.


The males would split off? And how exactly would they form new groups
without females?

You seem to be projecting some oddly sex-specific behaviors onto
creatures whose culture we know very little about.

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