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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5175563" data-attributes="member: 40177">Hey Hobo. I'm on break, so I'll be relatively brief with my responses!Right.  I figured it was an obvious point, and just didn't mention it.  There's also the argument that the large head size of Neanderthal children helped the species "Die out" - it's already a pretty big problem among modern humans (cross-culturally speaking)Yyup.  But there's a fair amount of skeletal evidence that suggests the contrary.  I've always been a bit wary about fully trusting DNA evidence, personally.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Possibly.  Tell that to my anthropology instructors, though.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  At least among anthropologists, those who say "Homo Sapiens Sapiens" tend to be those who believe Neanderthals bred into the species, while those who do not tend to believe otherwise.  I have no idea how it is outside of anthropology.  As someone who has actually held replicas of archaic homo sapiens and Neanderthal skulls, I can attest that the bun is not there in archaic sapiens.  And it is not extremely rare - I believe the number is around 25% in some populations.  It's possible we're talking about different things, though.  I can say that everyone in my family has one (except for my dad, I believe).  And I know in my anth classes, there were a fair number of students in the class that had one.Remember that humans, due to their development of culture, were able to survive harsh elements (look at the Inuit, who are technically a "stone age" culture).  So I think it can be difficult to say "no one was living there" - especially because the first neanderthal was found in, what, northern france?  Germany?  Something like that ("Neanderthal" being german for "New Man Dale", because it was found in a stone quarry owned by a guy whose name was Neuman and  translated it into the local german).  A theory I've heard is that the neanderthals, due to a lower birth rate, were forced to hide from the more numerous humans, and were forced to the periphery of human lands - which would be why we'd see them in icy climates.</blockquote>

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