Neanderthal

... nostrils to breath more air in. You would need to breath more air if it contained less oxygen as it might have way back at the beginning of the neanderthal man. And like you stated, perhaps this dominant gene stayed within the gene pool for many generations. And the bigger the nose, the better ...

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I am not informed with all the genetics, but I am studying Neandertals at CSUS right now and a huge debate is taking place right now whether they were actually a sub species of Homo sapiens. Are they Homo sapien neandertalensis or Homo neandertalensis? There is no indication that they were ill equip...

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... smaller brains than men (Peters, 1991). However, this does not indicate that the level of male intelligence is higher than female intelligence; Neanderthals had on average larger brains than do anatomically modern humans (Tattersall, 1995; Gould, 1981) but most would agree that they were considerably ...

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Gee, I will take that as a compliment, but compared to the mods, I am a Neanderthal, without a protruding forehead and a desire for raw meat. :)

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... What then of those civilisations that collapsed due to outside influences such as prolonged drought? And, how do you explain the inability of Neanderthal to survive along with us? The evidence is that they too were capable of cultural cohesion. And in argument to your theory that the old (hence ...

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