Were there Neanderthal nerds?
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Yeah the tv show was called "Far Trek(to go to find fire)" and the game was called "Caveholes and Dinosaurs". I got to level twenty, Ug
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Yes of course they are! They and the suckers they mislead. \nThe brilliance of the charlatans of our day can be seen in the postings of many of their followers to yahoo answers. These charlatans have convinced the ignorant that not only is their opinion just as good as the opinion of experts (people who have spent their entire life studying a subject) it's actually better, because it's not based on unapproachable 'egghead' stuff, but on a child-like faith in sweet Jesus that even an idiot can have.  \nCrooks like Stroebel and Hovind are lying to this crowd and they mostly know it too. \nJust one example of this is their treatment of radioactive dating. When creationists say that dinosaur bones have been found that radio-carbon date to a few thousand years old, this leads their readers to assume that the dinosaur bones are only a few thousand years old, but surely the creationist know that carbon14 has a half-life of only of 5730 years. Potassium-argon dating is used to date anything over a million years old, and using that dating method, dinosaur bones date from between 140 and 65 million years. The creationists must know a simple fact like that. They complain about the unreliability of radioactive dating methods but see no problem with setting their clocks to standards based on radioactive decay. It's extremely reliable as a method of setting chronology.\nThere is a vast array of intertwining evidence that supports evolution, and the extremely old age of the universe and of the earth. Fields as diverse as biology, chemistry, geology, geography, nuclear physics, and astronomy, have given humans a wonderfully coherent and comprehensive picture of the universe we live in, of what it used to be like, and of what it most probably will be like in the future. It is a picture based on theories with not just great, but astonishing, predictive power. \nCreation science proves nothing, does not explain existing evidence, and has astonishingly poor predictive power. This is why no one at all, except Christian Fundamentalists, believes in creationism. \nUnfortunately creationists sound impressive to the ignorant and the gullible, and the English speaking world has both these types in abundance.
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yup, just like me\n\n- im a nerd with a good personality!!
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I suppose that depends on your definition of primitive. If you are talking about people like Neanderthals they were not primitive at all. They had a family structure, pecking order within their community, they used tools (and invented new ones) and some were artistically developed. They were hunters/gatherers. Primitive by our present day standards, advanced creatures by their standards
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Me and my friends were seriously 'uncool' but we were so proud of being 'uncool' that all the supposedly 'cool' people wanted to hang out with us.\n\nLet this be a lesson to all of you nerds out there, embrace your nerdism and be proud.
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Not necessarily.  The problem with anthropologists is that they're really only making educated guesses.  They can't say with 100% certainty that anything they present is fact.  I became very annoyed with the anthropologist Steven Spielberg consulted when making "Jurassic Park" because he made comments like "We know these dinosaurs didn't do that" and "This is exactly what this dinosaur would have looked like."  How the heck does he know?  Was he there?\n\nTo answer your question:  I wouldn't automatically accept the notion that T. Rex was a pack hunter.  I would have to examine the evidence for myself and see how the researchers came up with their theories.
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True and False.\n\nTrue they existed.  False that they existed "millions of years ago"
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Neanderthals were fully human.
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according to hinduism , jainism and buddhism every living being has a soul. even trees have it because they are evolving living beings. even botasnist do claim that the plants can feel !. so neanderthals had a soul. just because they may not have same beliefs as us it would be wrong to say that they did not have a soul.
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An analysis of Neanderthal DNA and mitochondria a few years ago seems to indicate that there is no Neanderthal-specific DNA continuing on in our present day population.\n\nThis does not mean they did not mate, of course. We know the two species knew each other and even communicated: Neanderthals of the later eras changed from the standard Mousterian toolmaking technique to a later technology known as chatelperronian - which is a hybrid of their own techniques and that of the "Cro Magnon" modern humans.\n\nAlso, there appears, for a time, to have been a population of people that had some Neanderthal features and some modern ones, suggesting intermarriage.\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/323657.stm\n\nHowever, as I said, it does not appear that any of their DNA has survived into our modern era.
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yes..but all of "us" dork are living a great life now and the "popular" ones are still working crappy jobs and have 3 kids divorced twice and live with there parents.\n\nplus I know plenty of hot dorks and geeks my favorite!
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i think it was just dinosaurs\n\nthat was a cool show, wasn't it?? lol
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As life slowly became a little better for ancient man, he found more leisure time for laying around in the cave, watching the cave drawings, reading the Sunday clay tablets, and working out important problems like how many swallows would be needed to fly a coconut to Europe. As millions of years went by, less exposure to the light of day led to paler whitey dudes. If this hypothesis has modern evidence, it may be the high numbers of pale nerds...\n\n(=}\n(:o\n(8}\n(:)
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Considering that they have extracted DNA from the tooth of a Neanderthal,at least 10 thousand years.
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Yes, the nerds are usually the smart ones. So schools are producing less nerds these days. It all started going downhill after Bill Gates.\n\nOops! FEWER nerds.
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In prehistoric times, children so loved their parents that when the parents passed away, the children plastered their corpses with lime and began to pray to their ancestors. They stood these human totem poles in the center of the cave and danced around them hoping that their parent's love would reach out and touch them just as the spirit of the animal totem they hunted and ate would grant them the strength of the animal. They painted the animal totems on the walls of their caves. See the Lascaux cave paintings in France. Similar art appeared in other lands. Then came the ice age 20,000 years ago which ended 12,500 years ago.\n\nAfter the ice age ended, and the floods came and agriculture took hold, people began farming around 11,000 years ago and built "god houses" to house the clay and lime plastered corpses of their relatives. Some societies ate soft morsels of their beloved ones to gain their strength, (such as in New Guinea highlands) while other cultures made statues out of their parent's or grandparent's bodies to keep them around so they could talk to them. \n\nBy the end of the neolithic era about 5,500 years ago, the idea of a spirit in the body was said to dwell in the trees, and people prayed to trees. Finally, people began to fashion idols and animals or 'venus' fertility figures out of clay and fire the clay. Women were worshipped because only they could be factories for producing men who could hunt in teams and bring down the mammoths. Women were highly valued during the ice age from producing children. Men who were alpha types instead of team workers were banned from the settlements. People began to tattoo the energy meridian lines as in acupuncture, about 5,000 years ago. Spirit, then became something within the energy of the body as well as dwelling without in the fertility goddesses who brought the cycles of the harvest and new children.\n\nAbout 14,000 years ago, instead of their parent's corpses inside the clay, just the art work/sculpture remained of these idols--people, venuses, fertility goddesses with huge mammaries to feed the world, and other sculpture appeared as cults, such as the clan of the cave bear and the cat cult.\n\nBy 9,000 years ago, the idol then went inside the god house to protect it--in the center of the village. That's how people began to pray to idols. Finally the spirit dwelling in the idol was released by smashing the idol or opening it's mouth to speak.\n\nBy the time of Abraham in the Hebrew year 5756 years ago, Sumerian shops for making ceramic idols evolved into the art of smashing the idol to let the spirit free. Then monotheism occurred to those contemplating the invisible God. By 4,000 years ago people eventually realized the spirit isn't in the man-made idol after all, it's in heaven and is too omnipotent to be knowable, but has created all, just as your parents created you from stardust. In Egypt, one pharoah prayed to the sun disk. In the deserts, the monotheists wandered, led by Cohanic priests who prayed to Yahweh, the one invisible, unknowable God....and suddenly, worship of female venuses and female reproduction cycles was not fashionable any more, and a patriarch male God took the woman's place in the God house in the middle of the village. From then on, societies were divided into pagan worshippers of female goddesses such a the cat cult in Egypt and the cult of mammary gland-clad female deities, such as Astarte in Greece/Anatolia. \n\nThe competition was on, and by the close of the classical period, God was male and sacrificed his only son, Jesus just as Abrahim almost sacrificed his Isaac, but let Ishmael wander in the desert with his slave mom...So the moral of the story is male patriarchs kick to the curb the female...After all, God didn't give his only daughter...The female venus statue was hammered to gravel, and the male God reigned in the patriarchy. \n\nThe female cat cult ended...by men's dogged
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It is a guess. \n\nI've seen pictures in National Geographic of a museum in Germany which has two statues, both Neanderthals. One is clean-shaven, with a good haircut and dressed in a 3-piece navy blue suit. He's carrying a briefcase. The other is the classic "Cave man" - long hair, beard, bear-skin toga, carrying a club. The contrast is striking. The one in the suit could probably walk through Manhattan at lunch time without getting stares.\n\nThe beard on most reconstructed prehistoric men is based on the fact that razors were hard to come by back then. You need a straight, sharp piece of metal to make a decent razor. It is physically possible to shave with an obsidian blade, but no one in their right mind would do it every day.\n\nThe long hair is another guess, again based on the fact that scissors are hard to make without metal. You could trim hair by laying it along an obsidian blade and whacking it with a soft stick (Some Amazon natives do this with their steel machetes) but you'd run the risk of shattering your blade.\n\nIf you mean the ice age ancestors, everything was hairier then - rhinos, elephants, horses - so our ancestors in the colder regions probably had pelts.