["Are you saying god created 2 completley different species of human like creatures? Us AND them? And dont EVEN say Neandertals were exactly the same as us."]
The Neanderthals were actually humans who had bred with apes. That explains why they were so different and why regular humans oppressed them and eventually killed them off. Normal humans considered them inferior and treated them badly.
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*See previous fundie who was using the fact that Humans and apes cannot bred in an attempt to disprove evolution*
Is it not possible that the neanderthal were a human/ape hybrid, and that explains why they were so different? I have read of this theory before in a science journal and it seems possible.
But if Neandertals are humans who bred with apes, why do we not find human remains alongside Neandertal remains during their diaspora (about 350,000 YA)? In fact remains of modern humans only show up alongside Neandertal remains after about 45,000 YA, when the Neandertals started to disappear.image
...so they weren't all that different from us.
Nearthentals were a completely different spices, LONG LONG AWAY, from the common ancestor to the Apes. Don´t take evolution to that extreme, dear. You give us a bad name.
"Normal humans considered them inferior and treated them badly."
-David B.
Actually, if memory serves, there have been a total of five species believed to be fully self-aware.
punchybird
Someone doesn't understand the concept of species at all, do they? Even if human beings share ~95% of DNA with chimpanzees, that still doesn't mean the two species can mate and produce viable offspring.
Humans can't breed with apes, but you're welcome to get gang-banged by a group of rutting Bonobo... (I'd tell him to try to reenact George Brassens ' Le gorille , but the sad fact is that male gorillas are only about 2 inches long...)
Actually it is believed that the Neanderthals were not treated badly by the Homo Sapiens when they still existed on earth. They had contacts, and learned a lot from each other. There was actually not really a tougher and a weaker one, both species were very strong, but eventually Neanderthals began to be a little less adapted to their environment (I think that it's about the ice age).
So no, Neanderthals were not at all able to breed with apes, and they weren't killed and oppressed by our species either. I assume they had fights, but not more than any other kind of fight between people. Neanderthals were people too, just not the people that took over.
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