"it's the baking and the SUGAR and the carbohydrates that are causing this morphological change. Shrinking brains/heads is a degenerative trait brought on by a variety of destructive habits. Human morphology has little/nothing to do with with selection.....and I suggest it started changing once the Neanderthals settled down, formed communities, and started farming, baking, and eating bread products/deserts/sweets as opposed to eating mostly wild game -- which is low in sugar and carbs.
This destroys the concept of human evolution. Neanderthals were simply human beings -- their traits of larger/different-shaped heads had NOTHING to do with being "primitive" as the racisit evolutionists claim."
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Let me get this straight. Baked goods make your skull smaller, is that it?
It all makes perfect sense now. As you go back through the fossil record, you'll find Homo Erectus, Homo habilis, and the australopithecines, in increasing order of age and also of baked goods consumption. You can see where humans began to diverge from chimpanzees in their baked goods consumption habits.
You can even see today how small chimpanzee skulls are due to their excessive consumption of baked goods, which of course is meticulously hidden by the Evil Atheist Conspiracy.
Edit: Is there such thing as a Bizarro Alternate Universe Lifetime Achievement Award?
Keen on all the previous stuff?.Just one, WE ARE NOT THE DESCENDANTS OF NEARTHENTALS. And, sugar is ESSENTIAL to our brain. Please, you´re bordering insanity.
... as opposed to eating mostly wild game -- which is low in sugar and carbs.
I don't even know where to begin with that little line. Supersport may be super at sport, but chemistry and molecular biology are certainly not his forte.
As for the rest, I'm not touching it. There's WAY too much shit there.
Matilde: Please, you´re bordering insanity.
Worse - Stupidspot's passport has been stamped for Insanity so many times he ran out of pages.
Where to start...
Well, since others have pointed out the whole carbs/meat thing and the Neandertal/settling thing, I'll content myself with pointing out that sugar is a modern invention, and the entire concept of a "sweet" taste was extremely rare up until about 150 years ago.
In the northern hemisphere, honey and dried fruits were it as far as sweetness was concerned. No sugar to be found, kid.
Never mind that without having a surplus, there is no civilization of any kind. Period. No arts until you can feed the artist; likewise no traders, no soldiers, no administrators...
Thursday pretty much nails that on the head.Though you can have complex societies largely devoid of agriculture or carbohydrates if you have a permanant meat supply.This however, has occured only in the Pacific Northwest and on a lesser scale in the Baltic Sea area.
Eating more meats,high fiber vegetables,nuts and fruits is certainly healthier than subsisting largely on processed fats and carbohydrates like the modern american diet.Atkins was on the right track.
I can't say the same for supersport, who definately qualifies for a sugar reduced diet.Ketones may be a better improvement for his brain than the standard American Glucose Overload.
sport, no, Neandertals were a seperate spcies who NEVER adopted farming as a lifestyle.
Neandertals remained gatherer/hunters untill their extinction some 25,000 years go.
Like all gatherer/hunters, Neandertals depended mainly on roots,nuts,and berrys, for survival. Some wild grains. wild beans. and VERY LITTLE meat.
The Neandertal toolkit remained unchanged and primitive for over 200,000 years while our own toolkit became increasinly complex.
Neandertals were over specialized for cold weather at the margns of the ice.
You have failed to destroy the concept of human evolution. The larger heads and shorter limbs of Neandertals had nothing to do with being "primitive", and EVERYTHING to do with being Neandertal.
Maybe you should actualy read something writen AFTER 1950.
D Laurier
"Neandertals remained gatherer/hunters untill their extinction some 25,000 years go.
Like all gatherer/hunters, Neandertals depended mainly on roots,nuts,and berrys, for survival. Some wild grains. wild beans. and VERY LITTLE meat."
I don't know if some new paper has come out that shows what you stated is true, but every isotope study, every midden examined, shows that Neanderthals were the most carnivorous humans that ever lived, even Inuits eat more plant matter then they did.
"The Neandertal toolkit remained unchanged and primitive for over 200,000 years while our own toolkit became increasinly complex."
True, to a point, recent analysis shows
that Neanderthal toolkits start getting much more complex, with jewelry
being made, starting about 50,000 years ago.Whether it was an independent process or influenced by sapiens is still debated.
"Neandertals were over specialized for cold weather at the margns of the ice."
Yes, and no, neanderthals could be found from the ice pack to as far south as Israel and Iran.We simply don't have enough in the way of skeletal remains to say whether or not they were so specialized.
These GEICO caveman commercials are totally anti-semitic and awful in the way they portray White Anglo Saxon Protestants as somehow superior to the obviously neurotic and whiny Jewish caveman character.
Utterly offensive.
Jewish?!
What makes you think that?
First of all, Neanderthals never farmed and quite likely never interbred with homo Sapiens Sapiens (us).
Also, children are being born larger and larger these days, with the increasing ease, accessibility, and safety of c-sections. The new evolutionary trait in humans will lead, possibly, to an average height of 7 feet (in a few centuries/millenia, if trends continue) with weight and muscle mass to match.
So no, you fail on all counts.
@Papabear:
That is essentially what he was saying. You see, sometimes, even the most wilfully ignorant person slips up and gets something correct. This is especially common for bounded questions with only a few coherent answers, such as here where there are only two (X is low/high in Y), because there is too little scope for wrongness to give an originally wrong answer.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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