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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GameDaddy" data-source="post: 5989349" data-attributes="member: 80711">The Neadertals lived for much longer durations much closer to the great ice glaciers and sheets, and in the heavy forests than h. sapiens, their bodies actually adapted to tolerate the extreme cold and their limbs (arms and legs) grew shorter (So they could keep their body temperature up by keeping their blood closer). Because they hunted as a group, they didn't need to run as much anyway. H. Sapiens from Africa on the other hand just had to run a lot more. They had to find water during droughts (which became even more frequent after the development of agriculture when they ruined the land there). They had to outrun big predators like lions and sabre cats, and stampeding herds. In Northern Europe under the Ice shelves you could usually find a tree to climb if a large herd stampeded.On the speaking problem, I want to quote Ashtagon, because this all ties together:There is no evidence that Neadertals had any troubles communicating with each other. They did have troubles communicating with h. sapiens however, because h. sapiens had developed an advanced language to rapidly communicate information. The lack of ability to articulate words automatically ensured that Neandertals used their other senses more, so... heightened smell, sight, touch, and listening compared to h. sapien. This is just like a blind man, who automatically is better at hearing minute sounds, and can gauge distance by sound because that blind man can only listen. So yes, empathetic to the point of being almost precognitive or psychic.This ties in with the common language as well. Gestures, expressions and sounds that everyone understood or comprehended.While I would need to do a whole lot more research, I believe Neadertals preferred being in a closed society amongst themselves, viewing h. sapiens with some suspicion due to the preference of  h. sapiens to raiding into Neandertal territories and hunting grounds. h. sapiens developed cannibalism and fraticide, and war as a response to changing enviromental conditions and depleting their own hunting grounds. I also believe that Neardertals often hunted h. sapiens to drive them out of their territories and were so effective at it, they really motivated h. sapiens into expending extra effort to remove Neandertals from Northern Europe.Any Appendix N. for Neadertals should include just about any books by the eminent Anthropologist, Marvin Harris.</blockquote>

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