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Researchers compared the Neanderthal genome to the genomes of five living people: one San from southern Africa, one Yoruba from West Africa, one Papua New Guinean, one Han Chinese and one French person. Scientists discovered that
1% to 4% of the latter three DNA samples is shared with Neanderthal's====
They point they are trying to make is that they are DIFFERENT ie better, than sub-saharans. ..
Well I have heard some 'HBD" types tout the Neanderthal link as part of the usual race preening- i.e. separate evolution in Europe, higher iq and so on, and they never cease pointing out how high crime is among "sub-Saharans" - who they claim, are genetically predisposed" to violence.
But they quickly skip over another less glowing possibility - perhaps it is the Neanderthal "link" that makes Europeans the most violent people on earth. The mass murders of the Holocaust, the mass murder of the gulags under Stalin, the mass bones of over 2 million Africans under the Atlantic Sound, two World Wars, etc etc etc attest to European "leadership" in violence.
The notion that evolution produced kinder, more civilized, less violent Europeans and Asians compared to vile, less worthy "sub-Saharans" is a staple of heriditarian/HBD/"biodiversity"thought, not just among bottom-dwelling Stormfront moles, but well dressed, well-funded men with college degrees- men like Jared Taylor, JP Rushton, Michael Levin, Richard Lynn and others.
IN terms of the Neanderthal thing, note, I am only turning around the logic of the "biodiversity" types back on themselves, NOT endorsing their dubious celebration. Just flipping the coin and sayin that if this Neanderthal link or cold climate "leadership" is to be celebrated, then the dark record of European blood and mass slaughter should also be put on the table with the rest of the celebration. Research by some scientists show that the Neanderthals were quite capable of violence.
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New evidence of Neanderthal violenceReconstruction of Neanderthal skull (Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences)
By Helen Briggs
BBC News Online
Evidence has emerged to suggest the Neanderthals had a war-mongering nature.
The early hunter-gatherers got into fights and used weapons, according to the results of a study of a skeleton uncovered in French caves.
A crack in the skull of the 36,000-year-old Neanderthal was caused by a sharp tool, say anthropologists.
Early humans (BBC)
Scientists are tracing back the origins of sophistication
They think another Neanderthal or an early modern human attacked the young adult.
The Neanderthal survived but would have had to be nursed by other members of the tribe.
The findings indicate that the contemporaries of early modern humans were more sophisticated than their popular "caveman" image suggests.
They would have needed social skills and organised networks to take part in armed conflict.
It may have been a crucial factor in the evolution of Neanderthal and human behaviour, say scientists in Switzerland and France.
Social skills
The evidence comes from a computer-aided reconstruction of the skull of a Neanderthal found near the village of St Cesaire in 1979.
Dr Christoph Zollikofer of the University of Zurich and colleagues say a healed cranial fracture shows the Neanderthal was hit by a sharp tool or weapon.
"These findings add to the evidence that Neanderthals used implements not only for hunting and food processing, but also in other behavioural contexts," they report in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
They say the potential for violence might have spurred the evolution of social behaviour.
Neanderthal social groups gave support to their members
Prof Chris Stringer, Natural History Museum
Professor Chris Stringer at the Natural History Museum, London, UK, is an expert on the origins of humans.
He says several Neanderthal skeletons showing signs of injury have been uncovered in the past.
But to his knowledge injury by another "person" can be implicated in only one other find - a healed wound to a rib on a Neanderthal from Shanidar Cave, Iraq.
Professor Stringer told BBC News Online: "In both these cases the individuals survived long enough for the wound to heal, suggesting that Neanderthal social groups gave support to their members.
"Given that this is one of the most recent Neanderthals known, it is even theoretically possible that the weapon used was wielded by a contemporary Cro-Magnon [earliest anatomically modern human]," he added.
"But it is much more likely that the injury was caused by another Neanderthal."
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Indeed, it is argued by some that Neanderthals were marked by violence and directly preyed on modern humans.QUOTE:
"Abstract
Based on a reassessment of Neanderthal behavioural ecology it is argued argues that
the emergence of behaviourally modern humans was the consequence of systemic
Neanderthal predation of Middle Paleolithic humans in the East Mediterranean Levant
between 100 and 45 thousand years BP. ‘Neanderthal predation theory’ proposes intraguild
predation, sexual predation, hybridisation, lethal raiding and coalitionary killing
gradualistically reduced the Levantine human population, resulting in a population
bottleneck <50 Kya and precipitating the selection of anti-Neanderthal adaptations" --Them and Us: Neanderthal predation and the bottleneck speciation of modern humans. by Danny Vendramini*
*Independent scholar. Correspondence to: PO. Box 924 Glebe. Sydney, NSW. 2037. Australia. Ph: 612-9550 9682. Email: dv@amaze.net.au