The Evolution of Man

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(11-10-2016, 06:38 PM)brotherbear Wrote: Neanderthals are muscular but not fat or hairy.Blue eyes is just one mutation (like white tiger) and may be their hair is red. 
 
How would you explain that no bone sewing needles have ever been discovered among Neanderthal relics, but numerous among Cro-magnon? If not physically adapted to freezing temperatures, just how did the Neanderthal people survive? 

Although they weighed almost 200-pounds on average in Europe, and only 160-pounds in Iran/Caucasus, there are several weight gain-linked or inflammation-linked diseases in modern Europeans (and now others because of inter-mixing) that point back to the Neanderthal lineage such as Type II diabetes or Crohn's disease. They were extremely muscular (and not that fat, simply stocky), but they still had genomes for these types of diseases.

Some humans can live bare or with minimal clothing in Arctic temperatures, so it is no surprise that Neanderthals could as well. Like the Inuit, Neanderthals were stocky (short-limbed, long-torso), except that the Neanderthals had greater muscle mass which, in return, excreted great body heat when exercise was done. Thicker skin layers and a nice layer of thick body hair than modern humans as well. Reply