Neanderthal research (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 14:52 (5772 days ago) @ David Turell

"The fact that Neanderthals could adapt to new conditions and innovate shows they are culturally similar to us," he said. "Biologically they are also similar. I believe they were a subspecies of human but not a different species." The powerfully built Neanderthals were first discovered in Germany's Neander Valley in 1856. Exactly who they were, how they lived and why they vanished remains unclear. >Research shows they contributed between 1 and 4 percent of their genetic material to the people of Asia and Europe. Riel-Salvatore rejects the theory that they were exterminated by modern humans. Homo sapiens might simply have existed in larger groups and had slightly higher birthrates, he said. >"It is likely that Neanderthals were absorbed by modern humans," he said. "My research suggests that they were a different kind of human, but humans nonetheless. We are more brothers than distant cousins."- Another devastating blow to Evolutionary Theory. If Neanderthals are our brothers and not our progenitors, then they are forced to come up with a new 'missing link'.