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The Last of the Neanderthals: Eurasia was theirs alone for 200,000 years.
- biohacker42 18y agoThere's one thing that keeps bugging me about every depiction of a Neanderthal. The thing started bugging me after I had been watching a Neanderthal special on TV, for almost an hour it went on and on about how cold adapted they were. A huge list of cold adaptations due to 200,000 years of living in an ice aged Europe. Then modern man comes on the scene, fresh out of Africa. And what do you know, the newly arrived African is snow white and blue eyed, facing a brown haired, brown eyed, Neanderthal. That's when the light bulb went on over my European blue eyed head, this is bullshit. The Neanderthal in the linked article has brownish red heir and brownish green eyes, and so is the by far the fairest depiction I've ever seen.