Manga Girls Beware: Extra Large Eyes Caused Neanderthal's Demise

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports on a new study of prehistoric skulls which suggests that Neanderthals became extinct because they had larger eyes than our species. As a consequence of having extra sized eyes, an average 6 millimeters larger in radius, more of their backside brain volume was devoted to seeing, at the expense of frontal lobe high-level processing of information and emotions. This difference affected their ability to innovate and socialize the way we, modern people (Homo Sapiens Sapiens) do. When the last Ice Age set on 28,000 years ago, Neanderthals had no sewn clothes and no large organized groups to rely on each other, hastening their fall. Yet, they were not stupid, brutish creatures as portrayed in Hollywood films, they were very, very smart, but not quite in the same league as the Homo Sapiens of Cromagnon."

But......

[wbr1]

We all know those big-eyed anime little neanderthal girls were killed of by tentacle monster rapists, thus preventing procreation!

Bigger than their stomachs?

[BenSchuarmer]

my mom always warned me about that

Re:Idle speculation: Size Matters

[Anonymous Coward]

I say BS! Neanderthals died out because the females preferred the larger penis of the Homo Sapiens.

Re:But......

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh sure, they always blame us tentacle monsters. We're always the villains if we show up in movies at all. Have you ever stopped to think that we have feelings too?

And feelers. Lots and lots of feelers.

Am I the only one?

[fph il quozientatore]

I first read that as "they were not stupid, british creatures".

Re:Idle speculation: Size Matters

[pnutjam]

Yeah, back then they used to wrap them around their waist, unfortunately all the interbreeding with small peni'ed Neanderthal has left us with the 10 inches we have today. (Doesn't everyone else have 10 inches?)

Re:You make Grug cry

[JeanCroix]

Baby, no hurt Grug.

Re:This just in

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't go there. [photobucket.com]

Re:This just in

[PoliTech]

Woman payed to do the surrogate mom thing, then payed for the live Internet streamed birth, then more gals going for their Neanderthal payday. Eventually leading to Neanderthal Pron! Now with that kind of planning you could finance the entire Neanderthal cloning project with money left over. Then we'll know more than we ever wanted to know about Neanderthals.

Re:Idle speculation

[gandhi_2]

Ahh. See, now you are anthropomorphizing the humans.

They don't like that.

Re:Idle speculation

[Anonymous Coward]

In certain ways, yes. Chimps are known to torture other chimps, and ape packs are known to go after other packs of the same species and try to kill them all off.

It's been quite some time since you were in high school, hasn't it?