Comments by "Cris T" (@62Cristoforo) on "Neanderthal Skeleton Changes What We Know About Human Evolution" video.

  1. The leather loincloth?
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  2. I think you’re talking about the incompatibilities between a Neanderthal Rh- mother and a homo sapiens Rh+ father, a typical situation back then. In such cases only the first born child of such a marriage or assignation would survive, and any subsequent offspring would not make it to full term (stillbirth) due to blood incompatibility. I’ve often wondered about this, and if it has any bearing on the current (and historic) Basque tradition of family inheritance going only to the first born child, while forsaking any other siblings? Basque have the greatest percentage of Neanderthal DNA.
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  3. Lighter skin colours found today in people living closer to polar regions, and further from equatorial regions, was most likely an adaptation to less intense sunlight the further they migrated away from the equator. This adaptation of less melatonin would’ve evolved gradually over millennia, from Africa ancestors, “opening up” the skin to let the maximal amount of sunlight in while living in areas with less and less sunlight. Or, perhaps this lighter skin was an adaptation to deal with long periods of constant rain. I mean raining for decades at a time, or longer
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  4. This is part of a general habit or tendency I call “scientificism”, a near-religious habit of some young graduate students and doctors, researchers and scientists to believe that everything is scientific, as if all questions in the known universe can be answered by science, neglecting that not everything is scientific. Science is just one of Man’s possible interpretations of Nature,
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  5. But you kept their DNA
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  6. @tallowturq You stole my next line 😄
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  7. I think it happened the other way around; dark skin became lighter in those individuals who adapted to their newer, more northerly, and darker regions the further north the migrated. Their skin ‘opened up’ to allow more sunlight in as it became more and more scarce, the further and further north they moved.
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  8. I think that’s the aim of the artist; a perfect mixture of Negroid and Caucasian features.
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  9. Maybe Neanderthals faded out in favour of homo Sapiens due to their lack of ability to share within a larger extended family, or tribe. Neanderthals tended to behave in a more clannish manner, bequeathing all possessions and land to only the first born, abandoning all other offspring.
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  10. I believe it is the present day Pyrenees mountain range. It serves as the border, if I’m not mistaken, between Spain and France, home of the Basque people, a politically separatist group. They really are different from anyone else. They have the highest percentage of Neanderthal DNA of any other group of people on earth today.
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