Neanderthal research (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, May 12, 2011, 18:22 (4944 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Carbon dating out by as much as 33%.... say it ain't so. Either way, good article and thanks for sharing. The one thing that still bothers me about the whole Neanderthal thing is that if mankind has been around in some for for 40k years, and we have gone from cave dwellers to modern man in (supposedly) about 6-8k years, what did we do for the previous 32K+ years... sit around and throw rocks at each other? I don't think so...-Well, mankind in Europe for 40 K, and 150 K in Africa. I think the use of the Big Brain took some time and further development, now that we know the brain is so plastic.