Comments by "Sean Cidy" (@seancidy6008) on "" video.

From examination of their inner ear and skeletons , they could not easily lift their arms above shoulder level, (so no overarm throwing) run or jump . They were likely ambush predators.
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Extermination of a closely related human species by modern humans is not something people want to here in this day and age. He is saying back in the day Neanderthals gave as good as they got, which is obviously a fairy story.
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Yes humans are here so they were not the prey they were the predators . And the rapists.
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@leew5647 Funny looking but that is what they looked like.
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@matthew2531 They may have had skins to drape on them but it its known they had no ability to sew the skins to together. So they were very limited in how far North they could go because they lacked tailored clothes and portable tents.
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That is the problem; Neanderthals were not smart enough to prey on modern humans, because Neanderthals were not modern humans they were a different species and this was reflected physically and mentally. The Neanderthal genes that got into modern humans were just a nuisance.
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Portraying Neanderthals as like modern human hunter gatherers is treating them as a race of humanity instead of a separate species. They lacked technology to cope with the cold. Although their brains were large in size, Neanderthals were lacking important gene variants associated with human cognitive capabilities. And the fact is they had the evolutionary time. The Neanderthals had the time yet ever came up with tailored clothing, tents (and spearthrower darts) necessary to hunt the huge herds on the steppe tundra. Hunting humans (the most dangerous game) would be far beyond them. But they did look like big apes, and they were furry.
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You think you can have a career in academia theorising that Neanderthals were brutish and unevolved ??
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They were ape like and furry as bears (had no tailored clothing so must have been naturally insulated to survive in the ice age that far north). Danny Vendramini has by far the most realistic reconstruction of what Neandertals looked like. The scientist in this field are virtually all adaptationalists who want to believe in Neanderthals as fully human. They weren't and they weren't up to hunting us.
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@mateusfolletto6142 You know even the original homo sapiens inhabitants of Britain have be revealed by prehistoric remains DNA analysis yo have had black skin. Adaptationalists don't understand why.
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I am sorry but it really will not do to mock Vendramini for portraying Neanderthals as what we know they were (a completely separate species) while endorsing mainstream reconstructions of Neanderthals as very stocky white Europeans with oversized ruddy faces. Whatever they looked like in superficially aspects such as noses we can safely assume it was every bit as different to modern humans as we are to chimps, gorillas and orangutans
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Vendramini does not say the Neanderthals were knuckle walkers or not bipeds, so the foramen magnum point is not a relevant argument against his reconstruction. The Neaderthal skulls are not as distinct from modern humans in their skeleton and in their skulls as great apes are, but they are very different indeed. It's woke science to portray a different species as if it would attract no attention in a business suit on a city street.
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@Soul-Clutch-Man Neanderthal brains in Europe were big but shaped much more strangely that reconstruction in the mainstream illustrations on this video, which are are every bit as misleading as the worst of Vendramini. 8:55 shows a man that would not attract undue attention in a modern city in a business suit; completely impossible that Neanderthals were just stocky with heavy features within the modern range of some humans living today, and no hairier that Freddie Mercury . He is wearing skin garments that are clearly not one piece so the would have required sewing , but Neanderthals had no needles. Or tents. Which is why they could not go out on the steppe tundra, where they are misleadingly shown. And even if they had they could not hunt reindeer and other animals because they did not throw spears they stabbed with them and at a low level too. All the evidence is that they were highly specialized in their anatomy for hunting in forests and living in caves. Not social networking in fur lined hoodies with globular skulls like they are at 8:55. The man with a spear even seems to be on guard. The cheekbones are totally modern human with no trace of the slope down to the jugging midface, and back in because of the lack of a chin.
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@Tribrid-zv3nq Plenty of men hunt animals merely for sport. The mating was likely with Neanderthals kept as pets after being captured as infants
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