Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "How Smart Were Neanderthals?" video.

  1.  Herbal Shaman  You didn't bother actually reading much of those articles before trying to cite them in support of your racist bullshit, did you? "Oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by hypomelanosis of the skin, hair, and eyes, associated with reduced visual acuity, nystagmus, and photophobia (Tomita and Suzuki, 2004). Its worldwide prevalence is approximately 1:17,000 (Witkop, 1979)." A worldwide prevalence of 1:17,000. In 2019 that's roughly 453,000 individuals. And you somehow imagine this includes everyone in the world who is of primarily European descent - a category that includes well over a billion individuals. So why don't you take your ignorant, bigoted "white people are genetically deficient albinos" Louis Farrakhan bullshit and shove it up your ignorant, bigoted 75 IQ ass. Ignorant fuckwits like you are the reason racism still exists in this world today.
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  2. A red deer? They're pretty small.
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  3. I think it's a pretty big leap from Neanderthals having the physical capacity to produce complex sounds to Neanderthals having complex symbolic language. How and when language developed is still a VERY hotly contested subject. It could very well be that Neanderthals possessed the capacity for some abstract and symbolic thought and language, but not enough to function in modern human society. You can pretty quickly identify someone with moderate to severe developmental disabilities - who is still very much more intelligent than a chimp - with only cursory observation, and I suspect spotting a Neanderthal might be just about as easy. And that person with developmental disabilities is more than capable of having children who will likely be able to function in society with more ease than that parent can.
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  4. It's not entirely settled that they were a different species. In any case there are some species that can breed fertile hybrids with another closely related species. Some lion-tiger hybrids have proved to be fertile, for example.
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  5. "Progress" is not inherently good. It can mean developing railroads and hydrogen cyanide pellets so you can commit genocide much more efficiently than anyone in the past.
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