I
hate to write anything that might be misinterpreted as racially
biased. Neanderthals are a sensitive topic in some parts of the
northern world; Europeans have as much as 3% Neanderthal genes, and
it has been a political insult to say that politician x has more than
his share of the Neanderthal genome.
People
wonder how or why the Neanderthals became extinct. Generally people
have had the bias that any human-like forbear that became extinct was
dumber than homo sapiens. The idea was that human beings were
smarter, faster-thinking killers able to put the Neanderthals down
after having sex with them to a limited extent.
Animals
simple kill and eat as part of their nature. For human beings to
believe they were smarter than Neanderthals in effect is to say that
killing is smarter. Smarter=Better Killer. Plainly that concept is
juxtaposed between a pair of somewhat contradictory points; animals
that killer better succeed in evolution competition, and killing is
smart, yet humanity is better than animals because they can think of
abstract things and not just kill and eat.
Smart
= killing efficiently
animals
kill and eat
humanity
is more than an animal because they kill better than animals
the
conclusion is false
That
basic way of thinking is somewhat discouraging until one realizes
that the criterion is descriptive of original sin (of being a
thermodynamically formed animal) and that a spiritual rebirth of
salvation through Jesus Christ and God transcends the difficult
criterion.
Yet
the Neanderthal's first extinction...
Scientists
discovered recently that Neanderthals learned to make tar from birch
bark with a subtle firing process more than 200,000 years ago...at
least 150,000 years before humanity did. Therefore Neanderthals were
the first technologists and chemists...not too dumb.
Neanderthals
were big-boned northerns able to withstand the rigors of the
Wisconsin ice age in Europe and battle with the elements while
humanity was living down south in Africa. With the beginning of the
end of the Wisconsin ice age humanity wandered north. Probably
hominids had been wandering north for millions of years-as weather
and sea level changed, yet homo sapiens was rather late in the game
in moving to Europe. Instead of a war between smarter homo sapiens
and Neanderthals it is quite possible that the thin-skinned and
smaller boned human beings simply interbred with and out f'd
Neanderthals that could not find any way to build a wall between
themselves and homo sapiens. Possibly smarter Neanderthals drowned in
the flood of homo sapiens from Africa. Generally Neanderthals were
history by 40,000 y.b.p. although some malingered about.
The
remaining Neanderthal gene pool of Europe and North America is once
again being drowned over time by a flood of southern migrant genes in
a sort of genocide. Not even the evolutionary practice of building up
skull thickness with thousands of concussive NFL head to head
contacts will preserve the heritage of the Neanderthal remnant as
prolific thinner f'ing drowns the final plus 1% genetic content of
the better-than-human Neanderthal faded into history.
