Have you ever seen the effects of aging on people that live less than 100 years? Arm length is extended, and they're stooped. What would a person look like after 900 years of life? I bet they'd look just like a neanderthal.
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Oh, this is just RICH! Start from the assumption that 900-year lifespans for humans HAS to be correct, and then warp observations of geriatric development into some bizarre parody of fossil evidence for Neandertals' stature.
.... >_>;; I'm more curious on where he got the idea of somebody living that long...
Uh, guntario, I think we all know the cut-off point for human longevity is around 600 years. Get with it, man.
guntario must read the Old Testament - Abraham became 175 years old, Noah lived 595 years, and his father, Lamech, 777!! It must be "true", since it is in "The Good Book"!
guntario must read the Old Testament - Abraham became 175 years old, Noah lived 595 years, and his father, Lamech, 777!! It must be "true", since it is in "The Good Book"!
they look like that becuase of cells deterioration, with prolonged life that would slow, which is possible, but the extended life would require trimming the number of children born
Exactly, someone who lived 900 years clearly wouldn't do so by virtue of a having a body with the ability to sustain itself to a healthy degree for hundreds of years. They'd clearly age as rapidly as we do.
No, but thanks for playing. A neanderthal had a larger cranium, but no chin or forhead. They were shorter and stockier than we are.
No-one can live to be 900 years. The highest confirmed age of a person is 122 years. At that age you can probably hardly walk, or see or hear or eat. You are a prisoner inside your body, and can't rememeber why. All your children and grandchildren are probably dead. Sounds fun? Nah, that's probably why so few live to that age, most people have had enough before 100.
Er.....dude, you have noticed that older people generally don't have much muscle on them compared to younger people, right? That's completely opposite what Neanderthals looked like.
Nomination for "There Go The Last Shreds of Science Award" seconded (thirded?).
So people get smaller frontal lobes, less chin, larger "back lobes" (whatever they are called), shorter necks, larger bone structure and more body hair as they get older than 100 years?
We get stooped as we grow older because our backs are not really adapted to walking on two legs yet. Before the germ theory and general health care, not that many people lived beyond fifty years, which is consequently the age our bodies can handle without being too much crippled. After that the deterioration goes faster and faster.
Have you ever looked at a skeleton? Because 100 year old human bones are almost universally osteoporosis-marked - that is, pitted and in severe cases practically turned into sponges.
That isn't what we see in Neanderthal bones. They died young and with strong bones.
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