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Lethe, whole no. 5, January 1947
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legs and forearms were relatively short, a special characteristic of him. His strength in his arms came from the fact that where our two lower armbones are straight and slender, his were bowed outward in their mid-sections which means they accommodated powerful muscles. His fingers were probably less adapted for delicate or skilful work than ours are, due to this popularity. Damaging at first glance to the ego is the fact that the Neanderthal brain was perhaps larger than our own brain, but of course that does not mean they had the capacity to be more intelligent, and they probably weren't. They had 50,000 years to become, shall we say civilized (?) and didn't. (That last sentence is strictly my own interpretation.) Skulls of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens [handdrawn image of front and side views of skulls] Neanderthal Homo sapiens There are certain difficulties in placing, or rejecting, Neanderthal as our ancestor. If he was our ancestor why is our head, which is no larger than his, so different in form? Also that forearm of his is a specialized thing, not to be discarded easily by a mutation. Or does he resemble us because both species have responded to the same evolutionary pressures and tend to have large brains and shortened jaws even though we and he have led separate development for ages? Several remains of other pre-Homo sapiens have been found whose shape strongly resembles a mingling of Homo neanderthalis and Homo sapiens, though these might be isolated instances of interracial marriages, or mere chance. Cro-Magnon according to some anthropologists, is only to be classified as a sub-race of our own primitive, but definitely Homo sapiens ancestors. They are not certain of conditions elsewhere in the world at around 50,000 B.C. but it appears that in Europe of that time that our own sapiens ancestors with their Aurignacian culture which was higher than the Mousterian culture of the Neanderthals, invaded Europe from the southeast and killed off and/or intermarried with the few survivors of the Neanderthals and thus the Neanderthal Man disappeared from the face of the earth. So it seems that our own ancestors and not a separate species (as Cro-Magnon is popularly supposed to be) was the instrument that caused the dissolution of the Neanderthals. The Cro-Magnon sub-race was absorbed by us as the large heads of the Irish and Scandinavians testify, that is according to some anthropologists. The picture is still cloudy. end. page five
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legs and forearms were relatively short, a special characteristic of him. His strength in his arms came from the fact that where our two lower armbones are straight and slender, his were bowed outward in their mid-sections which means they accommodated powerful muscles. His fingers were probably less adapted for delicate or skilful work than ours are, due to this popularity. Damaging at first glance to the ego is the fact that the Neanderthal brain was perhaps larger than our own brain, but of course that does not mean they had the capacity to be more intelligent, and they probably weren't. They had 50,000 years to become, shall we say civilized (?) and didn't. (That last sentence is strictly my own interpretation.) Skulls of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens [handdrawn image of front and side views of skulls] Neanderthal Homo sapiens There are certain difficulties in placing, or rejecting, Neanderthal as our ancestor. If he was our ancestor why is our head, which is no larger than his, so different in form? Also that forearm of his is a specialized thing, not to be discarded easily by a mutation. Or does he resemble us because both species have responded to the same evolutionary pressures and tend to have large brains and shortened jaws even though we and he have led separate development for ages? Several remains of other pre-Homo sapiens have been found whose shape strongly resembles a mingling of Homo neanderthalis and Homo sapiens, though these might be isolated instances of interracial marriages, or mere chance. Cro-Magnon according to some anthropologists, is only to be classified as a sub-race of our own primitive, but definitely Homo sapiens ancestors. They are not certain of conditions elsewhere in the world at around 50,000 B.C. but it appears that in Europe of that time that our own sapiens ancestors with their Aurignacian culture which was higher than the Mousterian culture of the Neanderthals, invaded Europe from the southeast and killed off and/or intermarried with the few survivors of the Neanderthals and thus the Neanderthal Man disappeared from the face of the earth. So it seems that our own ancestors and not a separate species (as Cro-Magnon is popularly supposed to be) was the instrument that caused the dissolution of the Neanderthals. The Cro-Magnon sub-race was absorbed by us as the large heads of the Irish and Scandinavians testify, that is according to some anthropologists. The picture is still cloudy. end. page five
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