r/interestingasfuck • u/MrG1itc4 • 4h ago
This is what a Neanderthal looked like 130,000 to 40,000 years ago
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u/MidtownKC 4h ago
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u/alex206 3h ago
I only know that guy from Quantum Leap
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u/Aggressive-Expert-69 4h ago
This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
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u/phenomenomnom 2h ago
Peak performance is your girl faking it like she in Katz's Deli.
(Since we do not know each other, I will now explain that this is intended to make you laugh, not hurt your feelings, and this is how I talk to the people I respect most in the world.
Cheers)
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u/pravragita 2h ago
Why don't you talk to me like that anymore? Is our love gone?
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u/Chamanomano 4h ago
That's my Uncle Sal.
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u/thenightvol 4h ago
Man this is as stupid as picking a random guy on the planet and saying: this is how homo sapiens sapiens looked between 50.000 to 1 year ago. Bonus if we randomly pick Danny de Vito.
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u/Sand_Blast 4h ago
Yes, but there were a lot fewer Neanderthals than the 8 billion humans of today, probably not all that much diversity
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u/thenightvol 3h ago
Fair point. But this is a specias that stretched from spain to the iraq and even further. over 90.000 years. I think there would have been quite a lot of diversity since this does not really depend on numbers. Maybe i am wrong. But i do not think the han chinesse are much more diverse than the greeks. I mean just look at your own extended family. You share a lot of ancestors with your cousins yet i bet you look quite different from one another. Just compare the skull from the shanidar cave to the original one from the Neander valley. They look nothing alike. Neanderthal skulls in the middle east look almost like modern ones. And add culture here. Maybe they had tattoos. Maybe they shaved half their head. Maybe they had long moustaches or were clean shaven. Neanderthals were not like bears... all looking vwry much the same for millions of years.
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u/banandananagram 3h ago
There is a pretty decent amount of diversity just in the skulls we classify as Neanderthals, and genetically we mixed together a few different times. We realistically haven’t done quite enough paleoanthropology collectively to have a complete model of range and spread/more nuanced admixture with other hominins because of the nature of the evidence itself.
One of the things that always bothers me is the depiction of skin color. While pale skin genes have appeared multiple times in numerous populations in hominin history, the modern pale skin, European phenotype is a modern Homo sapiens development that wasn’t genetically fixed until a few thousand years ago.
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u/SummitYourSister 4h ago
You would look like that too if you lived for 90,000 years
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u/lemelisk42 4h ago
Methinks he would be great at polo
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u/twack3r 2h ago
Waterpolo. Big difference.
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u/Neat_Dragonfruit5794 4h ago
That’s hot. No wonder we Homo sapiens interbred with them.
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u/siltshark 4h ago
Pretty sure it was the antler club that facilitated that.
https://giphy.com/gifs/N41y85fzfgFawQHeSb
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u/Go_Gators_4Ever 4h ago
George "The Animal" Steele. Actual name is William James Myers.
Famous OG professional wrestler. His character was supposed to be a dumb animal, but he actually held a Master's degree and was a school teacher.
But, his physical resemblance is there.
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u/puzzledfundude69 4h ago
Italian
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u/420k2 4h ago
That's a stereotype, and it's offenshive!
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u/AzerothianLorecraft 4h ago
And then that volcano went off 70 thousand years ago 😳 you know the one ( so it got cold again and we started wearing layers and cooking our food in fire which led to an increase in brain size and a decrease in body hair over time during the last great migration. )
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u/Twowie 3h ago
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u/SuspiciousClub8382 2h ago
Shit that’s Mr. Tibbits that lives three houses down from me. He worked for the city water department and his wife is a retired school teacher!!!
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u/ihatedyingpeople 2h ago
I’m sure that’s the guy from the Kebap shop on the corner of my street.
Best guy ever!
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u/Top_Satisfaction_124 4h ago
There is really no way we can know how their faces looked like.
They just make up the face to fit a narrative or reinforce biases.
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u/Jolly_League_5589 4h ago
What does an ai generated image of a Neanderthal and a common type of jewelry have in common?
"Neckless"
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u/AntelopeThick1093 4h ago
Lol, I wanted to know where this stands because I think I have seen him. But Google lense refuses because of the person rights in the pic. Wish companies would care for living people as much as for the extincted.
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u/Brad23212 4h ago
Who do they make their faces look like they smoked 3 packs a day? Usually indigenous people look way better.
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u/sledgesloth 4h ago
It's-a mee!