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Old 05-08-2010, 08:28 AM   #17
Nmoitmzr

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Can we guess that, then, probably neanderthals probably had a language and were not that different from mothern humans?

Otherwise, the interbreeding would only have been throu rape of Homo Sapien Sapiens females by Neanderthals, or nailing of Neanderthal ladies by pervy Homo Sapiens who were turned on by coarse hairy stocky women with no language whatsoever
Neanderthals used fire and tools. They buried their dead. Its most likely they had language. They had a FOXP2 gene identical to that of modern humans (its associated with language).


Its perhaps easy to dismiss their material culture as less impressive than that of Sapiens at the time, but one should keep in mind that most experts now agree that the complexity of the material culture is primarily a function of population density and size. So this could easily be an explanation for their "lack of creativity" or whatever, since they quickly adopted tool making skills from Sapiens once exposed to it.
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