Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> We already have an auto de fe--it's called the
> Internet.
>
> Oh, and by the metrics of your holy DNA,

Thank you for associating me with Paabo etc.

> I am 5%
> Neanderthal.

No you aren't, you are not 5% Neanderthal, you are 100% AMH. You are confusing genes with derived traits or mutations not common to both... a very common mistake. And the only way you can make such a bogus claim is to snip references and replace them with personal beliefs.

> Coming from the Mediterranean rocks.

Another disappearing reference?

Here are a few that have been snipped out over the years with no referenced rebuttal:
ocher crayons myth
[www.nature.com]

Links to Wadley paper
[www.researchgate.net]
[www.academia.edu]

Super Glue refuted:
Not so, their glue was dirt simple: "Leiden archaeologists have now shown that this assumption was unfounded." (gee, I never would have guessed!)
Reference: [www.sciencedaily.com]


[www.hallofmaat.com]
[io9.gizmodo.com]
"There are lots of hypotheses as to why the Neanderthals went extinct,..."

and

[www.history.com]
Did Rabbits Kill the Neanderthals?
When large game became scarce some 30,000 years ago, early humans faced a difficult choice: eat rabbit or die. That’s how a new study explains why Neanderthals disappeared from the planet, losing out to Homo sapiens in the race for survival.
and
[www.newscientist.com]

The paper @:
[www.sciencedirect.com]

1) If you look at their teeth, used as a vice, small population numbers, and their inability after hundreds of thousands of years head start in Eurasia to expand beyond their original niche. One can see they weren't anymore successful than any of the other African transplants who went extinct toward the end of the Pleistocene. After all, wooly rhinos adapted successfully for a long time too, it doesn't mean they too weren't dimwits compared to AMH.
Which simply means Neanderthals were not solving problems by using mental solutions, but rather adapting to changing conditions physically by brute force.

Speach in jeopardy
[www.languagesoftheworld.info]

[www.evoanth.net]
"However, FOXP2 isn’t the only gene linked to language. CNTNAP2 is linked to language development in children, whilst ASPM and MHC1 are associated with being able to pick out different tones. And these 3 other genes are absent from Neanderthals6! On balance it would seem that the genetic evidence does not support the idea that Neanderthals had fully modern linguistic capability.

Toxic genes being removed:
[www.washingtonpost.com]
The genetic analysis allowed researchers to trace the inexorable decline of Neanderthal DNA, which was two to three times more prominent in early human genomes than it is in modern-day ones. This supports theories that early humans interbred with Neanderthals, but that their DNA was toxic to us and gradually weeded out by natural selection over the course of millennia.

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So far we have the flower burial ritual debunked as a myth. The Middle Stone Age ochre crayons nothing more than accidents. And super glue that turned out to be just ordinary paste. A Neanderthal flute that was nothing more than a gnawed bone. And worst of all, we have a talented French artist drawing a group of Neanderthals throwing a Neanderthal female over a cliff.

Enjoy your toxic genes, KK.