at it, let’s popularize the knowledge of Neanderthals.
Because it has repeatedly appeared in the two recent X male films, I am particularly concerned about Professor X's paper "To Homo Neanderthalensis, his mutant cousin Homo Sapiens..." when he was young.
Although I have only studied anthropology and archaeology briefly, I am quite impressed with Neanderthal. Because the skulls were arranged in the first class of archaeology, only Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens's skulls were in the wrong order.
Professor X’s paper only appeared in the movie “To Homo Neanderthalensis, his mutant cousin Homo Sapiens was an aberration. Peaceful cohabitation, if ever it existed, was short lived. Records show, without exception, that the arrival of the mutated ' Human 'Species in the Followed by the any Region wAS at the load immediate Extinction of less-Evolved their Kin. "
(translation: for Neanderthals in terms of their variants cousin Homo Sapiens is a distortion of the peaceful coexistence of the two lives, assuming that ever existed, then , Is very short-lived. Records show that the arrival of mutant races in the Homo genus in any region, without exception, follows the demise of races lower than their evolution.)
According to years of experience in writing papers, I almost It can be determined that this passage is an introduction, which means that the professor’s personal opinion is in this passage.
This passage sounds reasonable, and it seems to be true—Neanderthals is imperfect. They have an average brain capacity larger than ours—that is, Anatomically Modern Humans (AMHs, aka Modern Homo Sapiens)—but this is related to their larger body size. (Neanderthals have a skull capacity of about 1,200-1,750 cc, and modern people are about 1,400-1,600 cc. This is why I confuse the skulls of adult Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens.) But they are not superior in intelligence to Homo Sapiens, which reflects that On their backward and slow-developing tools. According to the anatomical evidence presented by the linguist Mollip Lieberman and the anatomist Edmund Krilin, the Neanderthals vocal system has poor articulation ability, which means that they are also lagging behind in their language communication skills. Homo Sapiens. And although Neanderthals are stronger than Homo Sapiens, their diet is inferior to Homo Sapiens. They are almost total carnivores. In contrast, the omnivorous Homo Sapiens survives better.
The reason for the extinction of Neanderthals is widely believed in archaeology: Neanderthals body shape can be said to be designed for cold climates. The ratio between their humerus, ulna, and radius is larger than that between femur, tibia and fibula. With the end of the Pleistocene, the warming climate made Neanderthals unable to adapt. There are also other reasons: the backwardness of tools leads to its inability to compete with Homo Sapiens; the lack of communication between Neanderthals groups has also led to an increase in inbreeding. The combination of these led to the extinction of Neanderthals.
From this point of view, what Professor X said, the more adaptable mutant H. Sapiens survived and replaced the less evolved Neanderthals, which seems reasonable.
But this passage actually has a big problem. Because the premise of all this is that H. Sapiens is a mutant cousin for Neanderthals. In fact, Homo Sapiens, that is, us, did not mutate from Neanderthals.
Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens [probably] have the same ancestor. The two have coexisted for nearly ten thousand years. But there is no "one evolved from the other" relationship between the two. In other words, Neanderthals are not our ancestors. Because according to the mitochondrial DNA sequencing evidence, no obvious gene distribution was found between Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens, so the two are separate species, and it is only possible that they have a common ancestor living 880,000 years ago.
Therefore, Professor X's thesis is simply not valid. It is wrong to compare Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens as humans and mutant humans because the conditions of the two are completely different.
So putting aside the theoretical basis for now, what does the professor's thesis express? Obviously, it is the phrase "mutant and proud" he often said. Professor X always believes that mutants are superior to human beings, just like Dumbledore's view of Muggles, that humans are weak and inferior. Fundamentally speaking, no matter how Professor X maintains humanity, the ultimate goal is to maintain mutants. He always stood in the same camp with Magneto, because they resonated with the most basic idea that "mutants are better than humans and will eventually replace humans." It's just that the two people differ in their expressions. Magneto tends to obliterate or rule mankind in a radical way because of the encounters in his youth; while Professor X tends to coexist peacefully and naturally transition because of his knowledge and favorable environment.
If you look at Professor X from the perspective of Homo Sapiens (the unbiased human in the movie), you will find that his caring object is actually just mutants, probably not so kind and close.
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have quoted opinions, too lazy to list Now, the address is posted:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC368159/
http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/neanderthal-human-interbreed-dna.htm
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