Comments on: Neanderthal Childhood. Did it happen? https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/18/neanderthal-childhood-did-it-h/ Sat, 21 May 2011 18:48:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: L. Hunter https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/18/neanderthal-childhood-did-it-h/#comment-550556 Sat, 21 May 2011 18:48:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/18/neanderthal-childhood-did-it-h/#comment-550556 Note that pygmies are rarely used as an outgroup when conducting DNA studies because their gene pool overlaps so much with other groups.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/18/neanderthal-childhood-did-it-h/#comment-550555 Sat, 21 May 2011 18:45:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/18/neanderthal-childhood-did-it-h/#comment-550555 Note: “Politics” is often when a racist says something incorrect and racist and then someone else points out that it is incorrect. Only a politically motivated person would try to correct something that is incorrect. If you were not politically motivated you would just go along with the racist thing and leave it at that. Is that what is happening here?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/18/neanderthal-childhood-did-it-h/#comment-550554 Sat, 21 May 2011 18:39:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/18/neanderthal-childhood-did-it-h/#comment-550554 Politics of what?

]]> By: DDeden https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/18/neanderthal-childhood-did-it-h/#comment-550553 Sat, 21 May 2011 18:11:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/18/neanderthal-childhood-did-it-h/#comment-550553 politics..?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/18/neanderthal-childhood-did-it-h/#comment-550552 Sat, 21 May 2011 16:50:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/18/neanderthal-childhood-did-it-h/#comment-550552 WARNING: The above comment is full of misinformation and presents a deeply racist view of humanity and is overall unacceptable. I chose not to delete it because I may have an opportunity at some time in the future to use it.

I’m hoping that DD, who is a regular commenter on this site, was only kidding. Or, perhaps, this is just an excellent teachable moment.

The problem with teachable moments like this is that they are complex and I’m almost always booked up …. so my jumping in and helping out here will have to come at a different time.

(Maybe this could be a “falsehood….”)

]]> By: DDeden https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/18/neanderthal-childhood-did-it-h/#comment-550551 Sat, 21 May 2011 15:33:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/18/neanderthal-childhood-did-it-h/#comment-550551 “African Pygmies have been living in the rain forest for quite some time”… Well, yes, millions of years living in camps/apa/kampong in forest openings. The ancestors of the rest of us (tall folk) got lost, ending up on the periphery. The short folk elsewhere remained within the forest belt, where shortness was advantageous (see okapi). The Pygmies, Khoisan, Hazda, Andamaners all constructed geodesic-like dome huts, structurally most similar to the great ape nests (which were naturally selected because they fooled raptors, resembling giant raptor nests, with infants with red scalps saying coo coo like an owl’s hoo hoo and reaching out with hooked hand visually mimicring the hooked beak of a raptor.)

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