Neanderthals could speak like modern humans, study suggests

Gerald · 12-21-13, 11:48 AM

Neanderthals may have had complex language.

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An analysis of a Neanderthal's fossilised hyoid bone - a horseshoe-shaped structure in the neck - suggests the species had the ability to speak.

This has been suspected since the 1989 discovery of a Neanderthal hyoid that looks just like a modern human's.

He seems to have talked in an understandable way,however, he needs a haircut if he will stand for any studio program

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25465102, I forgot to add the link

Note: 20 December 2013 Last updated at 16:06 GMT

Sailor Steve · 12-21-13, 11:56 AM

My only question is, why did they use a picture of Chuck Norris?

BrucePartington · 12-21-13, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

My only question is, why did they use a picture of Chuck Norris?

Jimbuna · 12-21-13, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

My only question is, why did they use a picture of Chuck Norris?

Closest looking thing to a modern day Neanderthal

BrucePartington · 12-21-13, 11:57 AM

Sometimes I swear they are still among us

Sailor Steve · 12-21-13, 11:59 AM

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Sometimes I swear they are still among us

I've known people who looked like certain representations of Homo Neanderthalis, and I once worked with a Mexican guy who had a very lean hatchet face. I swear he looked just like a Mayan pictogram.

Diopos · 12-22-13, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by BrucePartington

Sometimes I swear they are still among us

Of course they are, they routinely get elected too!!!

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Rhodes · 12-22-13, 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Diopos

Of course they are, they routinely get elected too!!!

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I think that is disrespectful to the Neanderthals!

Catfish · 12-22-13, 06:34 AM

^

I agree

Politicians are a low lifeform species which adapt to everything very well,
and thus never die out.

Only joking, of course.

Sailor Steve · 12-22-13, 09:09 AM

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Only joking, of course.

Why? My only question is whether you have to be a lowlife scumbag to become a politician or if you learn it from on-the-job training?

Schroeder · 12-23-13, 05:11 AM

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Sometimes I swear they are still among us

Definitely. I served with some in the army back in the day.

Cybermat47 · 12-23-13, 05:15 AM

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Definitely. I served with some in the army back in the day.

Wow! So the German Military has actually bought Neanderthals back from extinction!? I know that you're not joking, because The Media told me that Germans don't have a sense of humour. And The Media is our God. Praise The Media.

Gerald · 12-23-13, 10:46 AM

^You nail it, the Germans' sense of humor is well known

vienna · 12-23-13, 01:59 PM

Is this whole Neanderthals speaking like humans theory a possible explanation for the Kardashians, Miley Cysrus, Kanye West, et al?...

<O>

Stealhead · 12-23-13, 02:58 PM

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^You nail it, the Germans' sense of humor is well known

Austria is Germany with a sense of humor.

An Austrian told me that once.

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