Their Big Eyes May Have Caused Neanderthals' Demise

Oh my gosh, this story undermines the existence of the BIG eye GREY aliens; the myth crumbles to the floor. Waaaa! Though, this article does explain why big blue blondes tend to look like dear staring at bright headlights so much! LOL

Best go and tell those Sumerians to scratch those entire big eye alien drawings of the tablets too and all the wall and cave paintings around the world.

Bull-dookie. That a lot like saying you have to upgrade your camera back because you added a lens that works better in lower light.

Science has suffered the McDonald's effect.

Here is a good read:
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2063486/Alien-skull-Peru-Mystery-giant-headed-mummy-city-Andahuaylillas.html

Didn't Neanderthals have bigger brain cases? Just looking at this picture the skull is much larger. The logic in this research doesn't support the conclusion.

So... big eyes=stupid, huh? There is SO little real facts in this science field. These guys won't stop until they "discover" their sub-human man-monkey. (sorry, won't happen no matter how much they strain their jewels)
Honestly, I know we get a clearer portrayal of cavemen from GEICO commercials than we ever will from these guys.

@AnyIcon :) very funny blonde ref.

WAIT... Are these researchers really proposing that ethnic groups with large visual cortexes have inferior brain capacity and lower IQ's? Really?

@FotoBum
How about you actually read the paper instead of spreading your ignorant garbage?

@Ebrainer1, yes I read it and understood it.

Where specifically did you feel I missed the mark on?
A) My frustration that this field can't seem to separate their wish-theories with provable, repeatable science that won't be disproven three papers later?
B) AnyIcon's great joke about doe-eyes blondes?
C) My noting the danger of projecting an agenda-theory on a simple cranial measurement?

Neanderthals had a toolbox, which for the most part did not change. They could do a lot with the tools they had, but they did not expand the toolbox. However, they did not need too. It worked!

Socially, they pretty much live in the same style and manner too.

Yes, it has noted they lack in communications, but their maybe another way to look at this. Rather than taking notes, they had the reserve brainpower remembering.

Now for all those who criticize that traits are of a lesser value, the fact is they worked and they worked for a extremely long time!

Historically from various cultures, visitors from above come to Earth. Historically, the Sumerians wrote humans were a result of creation from visitors from Earthly above. Other religions noted were a creation by GOD, an external source again. Hence, the last set of primates\humans had an external advantage against the locals\Neanderthals. Also these humans were created for the benefit of the visitors or God\Gods.

I think Neanderthals are awesome, they were just put against tweaked out DNA hybrid primate=human and lost the recent contest. However, in the big length of time, Neanderthals have proven themselves a lot longer on Earth very well! Neanderthals were part of the Earth and truly free with its environment!

Neanderthals had a toolbox, which for the most part did not change. They could do a lot with the tools they had, but they did not expand the toolbox. However, they did not need too. It worked!

Socially, they pretty much live in the same style and manner too.

Yes, it has noted they lack in communications, but their maybe another way to look at this. Rather than taking notes, they had the reserve brainpower remembering.

Now for all those who criticize that traits are of a lesser value, the fact is they worked and they worked for a extremely long time!

Historically from various cultures, visitors from above come to Earth. Historically, the Sumerians wrote humans were a result of creation from visitors from Earthly above. Other religions noted were a creation by GOD, an external source again. Hence, the last set of primates\humans had an external advantage against the locals\Neanderthals. Also these humans were created for the benefit of the visitors or God\Gods.

I think Neanderthals are awesome, they were just put against tweaked out DNA hybrid primate=human and lost the recent contest. However, in the big length of time, Neanderthals have proven themselves a lot longer on Earth very well! Neanderthals were part of the Earth and truly free with its environment!

Sure are a lot conclusions being made on the basis of what is essentially a press release about an academic article!

That bring said, there are three assumptions that should be adressed (and may be in the article):

(1) the neural density of all primates, in this case, Homo Sapiens Sapiens and Homo Sapien Neaderthalensis, is the same.
(2) the complexity of each subspecies' neural networks is the same.
(3) neurons in each species store the same amount of data.

The results from comparative primate brain studies may make these assumptions seem trivial. While Neaderthat DNA has been recovered there have been no carcasses recovered from permafrost that I know of...much less carcasses with intact brain cases.

@FotoBum

The scientists wrote a paper, discussing their findings of a comparison of brain skulls. Not once in the article did they mention any theory. Not till your comment do we have the mention of 'wish-theories' and 'agenda-theories'.

You should brush up on the scientific method because it's a lot less involved with coming up with new theories all the time then you seem to think.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

@norbytherobot (great einstein quote by he way)

Article quotes: "This would limit the Neanderthals' abilities to, for example, trade for resources not endemic to their local habitat, or in times of local scarcity."----

How can this not be seen as speculation? Neanderthals were incapable of trading for stuff because their eyes used up too much of their brain? Come on, let's step back and look what is really speculation.

We should expect hypotheses to be debunked every digging season, not facts.

OMFH end the unceasing inferences and just clone the bastards

If your brain is contemplating what it sees, then it is thinking about what it sees and remembering too.

If the Neanderthal had little communication skills, no writing, then yes remember what it saw would be more important.

I wish I could remember everything I see, sheesh!

This is like trying to reverse engineer a Galaxy S3 by examining only the out line in the packaging it came in.

@kT Best explaination ever.

I like to see a bunch of Neanderthals play football.
I believe it would be awesome!

Austrailian aboriginal people seem to have the same robust skull with larger eye sockets.

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