http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21474978/ Check that shit out.....I think i read something similar to this as freshman way back in the day, but i didn’t really put that much thought into it cuz I had way bigger fish to fry than to worry about useless shit……However recently this story became more and more interesting, because it seems blacks in America are sometimes referred as "Neanderthals" by whites……….this is a fact……although uncommon among white women that date black men, i'll admit that ive heard it more than a dozen times. And it pisses me off to no limit because the people using these slurs are actually calling us something they have a higher chance of BEING...… I recall reading during one of my freshman physical anthropology class that some Neanderthals had red hair, blue eyes and pale skin, and while I may seem to be confusing a picture of Celts/Irish in a history book i had in high school with that college textbook (its been a while-I admit),,,, i seem to recall that the main textbook for our anthropology class portrayed images of rather attractive Neanderthal babes with long wavy red hair….....While Scientists dismiss any evidence of intermixing between "humans" and Neanderthals, by alleging that there is not a single sign of Neanderthal DNA in modern day "humans", you cant dismiss the fact that Neanderthals do in factl share phenotypes with modern day caucasoids.... Question:: how can you believe with perfect certainty that these researhers are telling the truth about Neanderthals?.....Could it be possible that caucasians actually did evolve from them, and blacks and Asians evolved from a completely different ancestor??..Are they hiding things from us??.. possibly…..i mean,,,now THAT would make ALOT of sense Anyways here's a widely published, '05 image of a Neanderthal girl whose archeological residue were found near spain in gibraltar,,,you be the judge... later
The multi-regional hypothesis of human evolution is not supported by the fossil record or DNA evidence. By all measures, the current evidence supports the single ancestor ("Out of Africa") theory. And learn how to write.
First, it makes me feel sick to my stomach that you've experienced black people being called Neanderthals. Ugh. Next, we all have a common ancestor. That's what I learned in my basic Anthropology class, anyway. Finally, as far as I know (again, recalling that one anthropology course I took a decade ago) Neanderthals lived in what is now Europe. :?: What I don't know is anything about the ecosystem of (what we know as) Africa when it was part of Pangaea. Also, I'm not completely sure that the first humans were what we would consider black.
Why would that matter when Pangaea split apart millions of years before the arrival of the first hominids? "Black" is a socially constructed term, so of course they would not.
I love the Neaderthal stuff. I think one of the reasons I find it so interesting is when I was in school, they still thought they were in our lineage and were looking for the "missing link". They say according to DNA that Europe was settled by about a dozen people, the smallest of the gene pools. Which might lend some reasoning to why recessive genes became prominent.
The Neanderthals stuck around for quite some time but they didn't have the ingenuity and built in survival skills to continue on. They may have looked like modern day whites....but they aren't their ancestors. The group of early humans that came from Africa, were able to survive (barely) so they spread out. First going to Central Asia, East Asia and the Middle East before a small band finally made it to Europe.
Sorry to bust your bubble but the Neanderthal branch died and did not evolve into anything. Regardless of your point that they are white.
