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Anthropology and Archaeology
Neanderthals: Our Long Lost Cousins
In 1856 in the Neander Valley in Germany a fossil skeleton was
found that had some characteristics that were a little different
than the average modern European. It was seized upon by
evolutionists as a "missing link" between apes and humans. Artists then
pictured Neanderthals as stooped over, hairy brutes; apemen. For
over a century books and magazines popularized this view to the
point that the very word Neanderthal has come to mean a
substandard human being. But as is so often the case with
evolutionists' stories, the facts are quite different.
Neanderthals were in fact simply a variation of humanity in the
same way that Europeans, Africans and Asians are variations of
humanity. After studying both Neanderthals and modern humans,
Johns Hopkins anthropologist Christopher Ruff calculated that
there were only trivial differences between Neanderthals and modern
humans and that Neanderthals had, on average, bigger brains than
modern humans (New Scientist February 6, 1999, p. 23). It is
facts like these that has caused even evolutionists to now
classify Neanderthals as true homo sapiens, in the same human
family as the rest of us.
A recent find in Portugal has furthered highlighted just how
trivial the differences between Neanderthals and modern humans
really were. A skeleton of a child found in Portugal shows
features similar to both Neanderthals and modern humans (Discover
August, 1999, p. 71). This skeleton is very similar to what would
happen if a blond, blue eyed Swede had a baby with a dark
skinned, curly haired Zulu. This combination would lead to some
interesting genetic mixing, but all of the people involved would
be fully human.
None of this should come as any surprise to those who understand
the true history of the world. At Babel the families were
scattered and isolated causing individual physical traits to
become associated with specific families. But as different as
these ethnic groups developed into over time, they were still all
cousins, descendents of both Adam and Noah. Neanderthals were
simply one or more of the families that had been scattered at Babel.
Over time these families developed their own particular traits. For
instance Neanderthals generally had short, stocky bodies, much
like the Inuits and Lapps of today, body types associated with
cold climates (Discover, August, 1999, p. 73). This fact is
consistent with Neanderthal traits developing in the post-Flood world
of the Ice Age.
As often happens when evolutionists distort the facts as they
invent their stories, the truth eventually comes out.
Neanderthals were not a "missing link" or some imaginary
evolutionary dead end; they were simply a variety of ancient
humans that either died out or blended back into the human
mainstream over time.
