Those damn neanderthals look scary as hell. I'm telling you, I felt an primeval gut reaction looking at those pictures.
Maybe he's on to something.
Maybe he's on to something.
I'm not saying Neanderthal's didn't eat and rape humans, I'm just pointing out that the authors would be unlikely to include pictures of cuddly Neanderthals juxtaposed with paragraphs of rape.
Sometimes I look scary. Sometimes I look friendly. My skull shape does not change in either state. I suppose when humans were fighting Neanderthals, their facial expressions were equally fierce and scary.
For the record I didn't find the picture all that scary so what does that mean?
If you're asking me to comment on what I think might or might not have happened a hundred thousand years ago based on a few TV shows and books and classes and such I've had? My answer is going to be something like "That's a nice color. I like brown"
There is no right way to respond to these articles -- there is no frame of reference, the topics are imminently debatable, and to some degree we'll never know. So any answer is as good as any other. In fact, the tendency is for internet pundits to run on at length, taking on airs of expertise when in fact they're as lost as the next guy. If you asked me (you didn't) 99% of internet comments are people talking way out of their league. In this case, I don't think anybody in the world is able to do anything but idly speculate.
I decided not to do that.
And it means you do not like brown.
Another example of this which I don't think they cite in the article would be modern alien abduction mythology. Most of the renderings and conceptual drawings of them portray beings with enormous black eyes (also slanted in the same fashion as the rendered neanderthals in parent article).
Having said this, there are also many modern animals that, when shown snarling in the same manner as they portray these neanderthals, would be equally terrifying, I think.
In person, yes. But in a picture? That's unusual for me.
I thought the snarl was overdone. Just the big eyes and vaguely human (yet alien) form was enough
I intuitively like the idea that another intelligent tool-wielding species put pressure on humans to evolve. I have no idea of the likelihood of the claim, but it would explain the sudden changes in our species in the last 100K years or so.
The art looks like very old pictures of gorillas, before people had a decent idea of what they looked like.