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Did Global Cooling Kill Off the Neanderthal?

by Richard McDonald May 6, 2007 11:27PM PDT

The">http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070505/sc_livescience/climatechangenothumanstrouncedneanderthals]The study reveals three rough climatic periods for Neanderthals, with the last and harshest period starting about 26,000 years ago. ?The last event was very, very cold and dry,? Jim

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Interesting.

by Angeline Booher May 7, 2007 7:41AM PDT

My family who lived in Anchorage for a few years said that when the temperature reached above 40 or so degrees, folks donned shorts and T-shirts.

As "humanoids" developed larger brains, learned to use tools and fire, etc., they could better adapt. It seems to me that it was an evolution over centuries that left the Neanderthals behind. In the days of the Knights of Old, the average height was much shorter than today. Many sons are taller than their fathers now. People now live just fine without an appendix or tonsils. So we are still changing.

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Vulcan logic applied to...

by Willy May 9, 2007 2:19AM PDT

I bet one of the geek Neanderthals invented the wheel but "no brakes" and thus ran over everyone and hit a tree and killed themselves. A passing Neanderthal sees that the tribe is dead and proceeds to claim everything even the new wheel. Of course the cycle(wink, wink) repeats until all Neanderthals are too weak to survive the onslaught of this new invention until modern man came unto the scene. As was told before me, "them's the brakes". -----Willy