New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal 505
ThinkComp writes "In what could possibly be a major blow to a scientific consensus that has held for decades, recent research suggests that the traditional conception of Neanderthals being "stupider" than Homo sapiens may in fact be misleading. As articles about the research findings state, 'early stone tool technologies developed by our species, Homo sapiens, were no more efficient than those used by Neanderthals.' The data used in the study is available on-line along with a visual description of the process used."
Well, that's just great. (Score:5, Funny)
Stone Tools (Score:5, Funny)
So easy a caveman can do it.
Re:Well, that's just great. (Score:5, Funny)
Now what am I supposed to call my brother-in-law?
Creationist!
This is refuted by (Score:5, Funny)
i mis-read title... (Score:3, Funny)
as netherlands...
The difference (Score:4, Funny)
The Homo sapiens bought out the Neanderthals tools and buried them, thus ensuring the success of Homo sapien tools.
The study was easy. (Score:4, Funny)
The researchers found that their research was so easy, a homo sapiens could do it.
They went extinct because... (Score:4, Funny)
they embraced Open Source. Weapons. Tools. Technology as a whole. Homo Sapiens stole everything from them, made some improvements and made it Closed Source. Neanderthals had to buy their own inventions back. The competitive disadvantage put them under.
Let this be a warning to you all.
Re:They went extinct because... (Score:5, Funny)
Netcraft confirms it: the Neanderthal is dead!
Re:i mis-read title... (Score:5, Funny)
That's stoned, not stupid :)
Re:Pop culture != scientific consensus (Score:5, Funny)
There was no scientific consensus that Neandethal was stupid.
... there is no scientific consensus that the average homo sapiens is smart, either.
Its not that they were dumber (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pop culture != scientific consensus (Score:5, Funny)
I think this is all just part of Geico's back-pedal campaign.
They realize they screwed up and pissed off a bunch of Neanderthals.
Re:Well, that's just great. (Score:4, Funny)
I thought attempting to get marked troll was part of the joke -- like, that mod in an of itself was the answer.
Scientists retracted their statements after... (Score:3, Funny)
They reposted their original findings that Neanderthals are dumb.
Re:Well, that's just great. (Score:5, Funny)
I dont think youre trolling.
You, sir, are absolutely right. A creationist is a really stupid evolved monkey.
Re:Well, that's just great. (Score:5, Funny)
I thought attempting to get marked troll was part of the joke
New scientific research is emerging that trolls are actually descendents of the Neanderthals. They are highly intelligent. And polite. And a productive contributor to any conversation. Who'd a thunk it?
So... the Neanderthals were Betamax? (Score:2, Funny)
I mean, I know we succeeded and everything, but doesn't it suck a little bit to be VHS?
Re:Well, that's just great. (Score:2, Funny)
I suggest calling him Homo Erectus...
They still exist today! (Score:1, Funny)
One works with me a few cubicles over... They're called the telecommunications group!
Re:Pop culture != scientific consensus (Score:5, Funny)
As a park ranger at Yosimite once said, "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."
Re:The difference (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pop culture != scientific consensus (Score:5, Funny)
But calling preconceived ideas "pop culture" is stretching it a bit too much. Unless you want to start a debate about Pirates vs. Ninjas :)
But there's scietific conseus that ninjas are cooler than pirates.
Re:The difference (Score:4, Funny)
"The Homo sapiens bought out the Neanderthals tools and buried them, thus ensuring the success of Homo sapien tools."
No, our ancestors went to the overburdened Neanderthal Patent Office, "proved" prior art, and sued the Neanderthals into extinction.
Re:Can someone stop the creationist mods in here? (Score:4, Funny)
The Creationist mods have,to mod critics down. Their invisible superbeings aren't capable of doing things on their own. And as a bonus: every downmod of rational thinking gets them one step closer to Heaven!
getting dumberer? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Well, that's just great. (Score:5, Funny)
Only at low temperatures though.
Zerg (Score:3, Funny)
FTA:
Mr Eren believes the most likely explanation is that Homo sapiens were simply able to breed more quickly.
"It's not that we were better than them," he said. "It's just that there were more of us."
Damn we're lame. We zerg-rushed them before they could advance in their tech tree and now they're extinct. :(
Re:i mis-read title... (Score:4, Funny)
i mis-read title... as netherlands... (Score:0, Flamebait)
OK, who gave the Dutchman mod points?!
Re:Well, that's just great. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Stone Tools (Score:2, Funny)
Who would have thought those loathesome, racist commercials were actually trenchant documentaries?
Re:Pop culture != scientific consensus (Score:5, Funny)
Incorrect. It's the other way around. It's been shown with Science that pirates are so cool that they actually offset global warming. There are graphs that prove this. Ninjas, conversely, are hot. At least... girl ninjas are. 8)
Re:Can someone stop the creationist mods in here? (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe they are. Have faith, and remember you don't get to meta-moderate God.
Re:Pop culture != scientific consensus (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, but the thing you didn't notice was that the park ranger was an impostor - a bear that had eaten the human park ranger. Dumb humans.
Re:Can someone stop the creationist mods in here? (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe they are. Have faith, and remember you don't get to meta-moderate God.
Only because God doesn't post on Slashdot.
Re:Pop culture != scientific consensus (Score:3, Funny)
Did last time.
Re:Can someone stop the creationist mods in here? (Score:5, Funny)
Didn't get a low ID number and is now too embarrassed?
Re:Well, that's just great. (Score:5, Funny)
Uncyclopedia has this to say about Slashdot trolls: [uncyclopedia.org]:
Re:Can someone stop the creationist mods in here? (Score:2, Funny)
*worships*
Re:Stone Tools (Score:5, Funny)
I was a young man in the stone age (1970s), you insensitive clod! I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did get all the bugs out.
The "stone age" was a wonderous time to be a young nerd. As there was cheap and easy contraception, no incurable STDs (the CIA had yet to invent AIDS), and women were trying to get parity with men, even a nerd could get laid! In fact, in the stone age women would ask ME (of all people) "wanna fuck, dude?" as easily as they would ask "Hey, you got a joint?" or "man, my radio's broke, can you look at it for me?"
File sharing (via cassettes) was legal. We had wooden computers called "slide rules" because electronic ones were still insanely expensive.
You young fellows don't know what you're missing. Man, I really miss the stone age.
Re:Pop culture != scientific consensus (Score:3, Funny)
What do you mean? Of course its a chick...I mean look at her.
Wait a minute...oh...nevermind...
Re:Pop culture != scientific consensus (Score:1, Funny)
As a park ranger at Yosimite once said, "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."
Some bears can even spell Yosemite!
Re:Can someone stop the creationist mods in here? (Score:1, Funny)
God doesn't post on Slashdot.
What is he, too good for us? What a self-righteous bastard.
Re:Well, that's just great. (Score:1, Funny)
Well, thats no troll.
Wanna troll?
To all people that believe in non-evolutive creation of life on earth, earth itself and the whole universe, in seven days:
I recommend that you follow this nice guide:
1) Take a digital version of whichever historical lie you like to call "a bible" (in some extreme cases, THE bible, even if that implies a unique and sole version of the damned book that actually contains "the truth"; whereas there is no evidence whatsoever that any of the surviving fragments that compose it actually depicts any sort of reality), print it out in glossy photo paper, make a roll of them....
2) Stick the roll up your ass.
3) Go to the store, get a hoola-hup and have the time of your life while you reflect about the nice and holy uses of your anus (look, I said anus, and think everybody has one, even though for some its so tiny that an electron microsocope is needed to find it.... oooooo im so bad).
4) (note that you should still have the book in your colon, but by now you should be quite comfortable with it) After such nice time reflecting, go home, do some excercise practicing some masturbation using internet pr0n (very important, normal pr0n will NOT do). Do not forget to carress your nipples (yes, the guys too).
5) The moment you aproach orgasm, violently remove the contents of your intestine.
6) You have reached illumination. Congratulations.