Orcs resemble Neandertals, are evil and eat human children and talk with a deep inhuman voice...
Is that our racial memory of a terrible genocidal war we had when colonizing Europe, where no atrocity was spared to the enemy and by the enemy? Was "Orc" the way we used to call them? That makes a nice story.
Looking to read ur book ; Neanderthal the orcs eat children.
And i thought i was off topic, our friends are gone and more friends will go hopefully more friends will come :)
I am looking to have some friends for dinner. Hannibal the Cannibal. :)
I'm sorry to say but unfortunately for us the Neanderthals still exist, only now instead of wearing skins and killing their food with clubs and spears the 21st century versions wear Hoodies and kick innocent people to death.
You can take the Neanderthal out of the cave but you can't take the cave out of the modern day throwbacks. Some genes seem to persist.
It's time to leave the Out Of Africa theory.
A deluge of recent data suggests it.
Seems to me, it's still around owing more to political correctness than hard science.
I thought it was more the whole mitochondrial dna thing than political correctness, though it's interesting to see the contradicting evidence coming out lately I agree
"it's still around owing more to political correctness than hard science."
Political correctness? Would you say a theory that states modern humans thrived by supplanting and probably exterminating other humans is PC? To me, the multiregional hypothesis is the PC fairy tale story- we all evolved together, contributions from all populations of humans across the globe, no genocides or supremacy involved. A pity it's not true.
Portraying our ancestors as evil as they turned white and entered Europe is PC. Also portraying the roots of "humanity" to be African is PC.
We did all evolve together, different species of hominid living at the same times, although not interbreeding much and some genetic offshoots were dead-end. In fact they were all dead-end except our direct ancestors, and their direct ancestors. We may have Neanderthal genes in us; it's not known for sure yet.
Given enough time we will be a separate species too. Our descendants will change enough over many generations that someday they can look back and declare us a different species because they'll be so different from the way we are now. That's the record of humanity. Evolution continues apace in us more than, say, in alligators that haven't changed much over millions of years.
There's no guarantee we'll get smarter and more desirable as a species, either. In fact social evolution is favoring the brutish degenerates. There's evidence that when proto-chimps and proto-humans split, the proto-chimps were not knuckle-walkers like they are now---they evolved into being that way.
Planet of the Apes, anyone?
Climate has a habit of changing. 18,000 years ago the ocean was 390 feet lower. Back even further in Neanderthal times the climate was of course affected by all the CO2 emitted by the massive industrialisation of homo sapiens. The slum dwelling neanderthals died out due to climate change. Too bad they had no green taxes to change the climate. Paying tax changes the weather, you know.
Many native Americans were wiped out by European diseases for which they had no immmunity.
Possibly the Neandertalers were hit by this also, and fell below the survivability line
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