WERE THE NEANDERTHAL DIFFERENT TO THE HOMO SAPIENS?
Anthropology
teaches these days that from the diverse subdivisions of hominids, the Neanderthal
were the closest to modern humans, also called Homo Sapiens, or ‘Thinking Man’
in academic Latin terms. But also, that they were closer to the ape-like
hominids than the Homo Sapiens, and therefore, had a different organic
composition, that even though they were similar to modern humans, still, they
had a great part of irrational animal in them, and therefore, they could not be
considered 100% humans (1)
Before the year
1980, they were considered to have existed before modern man, and to have been
a step in the evolution of humanity, and that they became extinct before the
arrival of modern man, or Homo Sapiens, who we are now (2).
After 1980, they
were thought to have survived until the arrival of the Sapiens, but that they
were hunted like animals by modern humans, and therefore, were brough into
extinction.
However, from
the year 1990 onwards, they are considered to have intermixed with modern men,
and eventually, their extinction is considered to have happen as consequence of
wars with the Sapiens, and mostly intermixing, through marital unions between male
Sapiens and Neanderthal women, producing a mixed offspring that eventually assimilated
through further intermixing into our modern genome (3)
A LESSON TO BE LEARNED
Science has been
profitable for humanity always.
It has brought us
information, medicine, education, clothing, food, transport, entertainment and many
other things which without, our lives would be very precarious. But as anything
human, it is not perfect.
The way their
anthropology has changed regarding this topic of Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens,
the same way it has changed in all areas, as time goes pass and new discoveries
are made or a better understanding of facts occur, which has forced scientist
to change their statements, and all under the same excuse that science is
fallible.
We must agree
with that concept, that nothing human is perfect, and therefore, Science is
also fallible, but even though we do not condemn it, since it is born from our God
given capacity to learn and rationalize, we must also never pledge our lives to
it, because it will let us down.
Regarding the
Neanderthals and Sapiens, we must say under the infallible guide of the Scripture,
that GOD created humans, and there is no evolution in his creation.
Having said
this, we also have the living example of Australian aboriginals, Asian tribes,
African tribes and Nordic tribes.
Their appearance
is so drastically different among themselves, that it would be nearly
impossible to say they were all related if we saw them for the first time. But
they are all human.
Humanity is
united in a common pool of chromosomes and chemical components that are common
to all, regardless of their physical appearance.
From the apish look
of an Australian aboriginal who had the English believing in the 1700’s that
they were Australian fauna and not humans; to the beauty of a Nordic woman and
her refined features, all share the same capacity to reason, create, feeling,
and belief in the afterlife, a distinct mark of been human; and furthermore,
the capacity of speaking and procreating across all sub-races.
The capacity of
procreation between a primitive aboriginal and a refined Nordic, proves that
they are both humans, that none of them is animal, and that all share the same
chromosomes. The same thing cannot be said from a human trying to impregnate a
dog, or cat, or horse, or even gorillas. They may produce a ball of meat, but
it would be deformed and born dead, because they are not supposed to intermix
by the will of the Creator.
So, we can only
conclude that NEANDERTHALS, HEIDERLBERGENSIS, DENISOVANS, HABILIS, ERECTUS and
all under the catalogue of HOMO HABILIS, were FULLY HUMAN, with their own
particular characteristics, mostly primitive features, but 100% after all, and
all with the capability of intermixing across the board.
And all of them,
descended from ADAM AND EVE.
Omar Flores
(1)
"Neanderthals:
A History of Interpretation" by J.R.R. Drell. Oxford Journal of Archaeology.19
(1):1–24 (2000).
(2)
“Neanderthals
may have mostly died out before Homo sapiens came to Europe” by George Dvorski.
Gizmodo, 5th February 2013.
(3)
"A
draft sequence of the Neandertal genome" by R.E. Green, J. Krause and A.W.
Briggs. Science. 328 (5979): 710–722 (2010).
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