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1. Ming the Merciless says:

   March 25, 2013 at 2:47 pm

   I live on an Indian Reservation…Some old folks here were incredible, you’d swear they were Neanderthals…they’d track a moose for weeks, kill it then carry the meat on their back home for the family…the younger generation?
   Meh…not so much…like me, they pale faces!

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   • jordan says:

     March 26, 2013 at 11:31 pm

     That sounds incredible! I would love to experience something like that. It’s actually another theory as to why humans survived and Neanderthals did not. We became great long distance runners and ran our prey, that don’t sweat, into exhaustion. We would run 50 to 100 miles at a time. Fewer and fewer tribes are doing this but you can find it in various places on the globe.
     It’s something I want to explore in Hominids at some point. Icari is going to be a really good runner.

2. Ming the Merciless says:

   March 24, 2013 at 5:50 pm

   Neanderthals had huge eyes that let them see in the dark, huge noses that let them track by smell, like, hum. Hercules Cyrano, but it distracted their similar brains from strategy and tactical matters, like better group cohesion
   is fostering more fighting effectiveness:
   http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112802425/extinction-neanderthals-due-to-large-eyes-031313/

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   • jordan says:

     March 24, 2013 at 11:22 pm

     That’s a cool link. It’s an interesting hypothesis. A lot of it makes sense. Thanks for posting it.