Neanderthals: Why is white the white man?

[icebear]

This is a real Neanderthal skull.



Notice that the eye sockets are twice the size of ours. This is what eyes made for sockets twice the size of ours look like:


(www.themandus.org)

I can't imagine wanting to be a Neanderthal apologist....

[Cern]

This is real neanderthal reconstruction.

http://www.anatomicalorigins.com/www..._25KYA.html#29

http://www.anatomicalorigins.com/www...-_25KYA.html#8

http://www.anatomicalorigins.com/www...-_25KYA.html#7

http://www.anatomicalorigins.com/www..._25KYA.html#21

[icebear]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZbmywzGAVs

[Vesuvian Sky]

Seems like there is no dearth to new Neanderthal factoids these days. All this talk of Neanderthal predation had me wondering if remotely anyone else in the world had this theory so I googled 'did Neanderthal hunt humans?', and instead what came up was the complete opposite(!!!):

Humans today eat gorillas and chimpanzees, so why would our prehistoric ancestors flinch at sitting down to a nicely roasted Neanderthal?

That's the shocking new hypothesis being raised by anthropologists in Spain, who wonder if our closest extinct relative was exterminated in the same way as 178 other large mammals, so-called megafauna, which are suspected of going at least partially by the hand of hungry human hunters.

http://news.discovery.com/human/evol...als-130521.htm

Hortolà P, Martínez-Navarro B (2012). "The Quaternary megafaunal extinction and the fate of Neanderthals: An integrative working hypothesis". Quaternary International (in press). doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.02.037.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...40618212001188

[Prisoner Of Ice]

This is a real Neanderthal skull.



Notice that the eye sockets are twice the size of ours. This is what eyes made for sockets twice the size of ours look like:


(www.themandus.org)

I can't imagine wanting to be a Neanderthal apologist....

Nope, some people have sockets those big. They don't have eyes that big, though. I have some motherfucking big eye sockets.