When the neandertals was pushed away,,,,you know,was that the first discrimination of races?
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A few points need to be cleared up.\n\n1) We don't know that Neanderthals were a separate species. We know that they left no female line descendants, which is not at all the same thing. There were thoroughly modern human populations in Australia that also left no female line descendants. The evidence suggests they were a different species, but it is a long way from conclusive,\n\n2) Neanderthals weren't pushed away. Modern humans and Nenderthals lived side by side for 20, 000 years or more. Neadnderthals were gradually replaced by modern humans but there is no evidence of them being pushed aside.\n\n3) In reference to Jeremie's claim that humans massacred Nedanderthals, there is no evidence to support such a claim. There has never been a Neanderthal body disocvered with human arrow or spearheds in it or vice versa. Remember, these groups had distinct technologies so if massacres were common we would probably find the evidence. More important is the timeframe for co-existence. If Neanderthals were bieng subject to regular violence they should have vanished rapidly from contact zones. Yet we don't see  that. INsrtead we see inplaces like Isreal that the two populations lived side by side. Which brings us to the next point.\n\n4) There was probably no overt racial discrimination involved in the disappearance of the Neanderthals. As I've ponted out, they co-existed for millenia apparenbtly peacefully. Insetad the Neanderthals appear to have simply lost the reproductive game. For whatever reason they bred slower and/or or recovered slower from catastrophe. Over time the numbers appear to have simply dwindled. The situation between Neanderthals and humans is more akin to the situation with Amish and non-Amish Americans. For the most part the populations co-exist peacefully, but the Amish population does not grow as fast as the majority population. \n\nThe Amish may survive because there is little resoucre competeition. In a situation where the populations compete (not fight) for food and other resources the smaller population will always lose out simply because the ststitsical chance of any person in their group finding a resource is much smaller.\n\n4) By no stretch of the imagination were all Neanderthals the same race. Neanderthals covered a large range, stretching from Islrael and presumably North Africa through western Europe all the way to Asian Russia. That gave them a comparable range to H. sapiens at that time.\n\nNorthern and far Eastern Neanderthals were quite different to modern humans, being short and thick set with protruding, flat noses. In contrast the Middle Eastern Neanderthals had no single features to distinguish them from the modern humans they lived side by side with. They were short bymodern standards, but many were much taller than thuamns in the same area. they tended to be muscular, but many were slim. Their facial features covered a whole spectrum but even themost extreme of them looke dlike some people who are alive today. \n\nIOW the Neanderthals themselves were racially dividied.\n\n\n5) Neanderthals sure didn't die out because of the Ice Age. Neanderthals were a cold adpated species. We are the tropical branch of humanity.  The Neanderthals lived through several the ice ages and thrived. It was only when the last ice age abated and us tropical humans managed to move into Europe that they started to deline.
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Probably Neanderthals. Afterwards, most people just wanderered through from somewhere else.
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An analysis of Neanderthal DNA and mitochondria a few years ago seems to indicate that there is no Neanderthal-specific DNA continuing on in our present day population.\n\nThis does not mean they did not mate, of course. We know the two species knew each other and even communicated: Neanderthals of the later eras changed from the standard Mousterian toolmaking technique to a later technology known as chatelperronian - which is a hybrid of their own techniques and that of the "Cro Magnon" modern humans.\n\nAlso, there appears, for a time, to have been a population of people that had some Neanderthal features and some modern ones, suggesting intermarriage.\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/323657.stm\n\nHowever, as I said, it does not appear that any of their DNA has survived into our modern era.
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First of all, racism is based on emotion, hatred, and all those other Anthropomorphic behaviours.\n\nIt is believed that the first humanoid creatures on the planet evolved in Africa, then through subsequent migrations to different regions of the globe, they changed in response to their environment.\n\nNo where is it written that things evolve into higher life forms.... that is theory that tries to explain things like the movement onto land from sea, etc. Things dont just change into something else, they are modified to better suit their environment, look at insects for example. Most insects had to develop wings in order to reach their food, this is because tree were appearing, and the fact thta tree were appearing is based in inter and intra specific competition for sunlight....in other words things change to benefit themselves. They dont becom an entirely different thing. We are essentially apes, just our brains are larger, this is related to diet, and to behaviour, we stand up right more often simply becasue we evolved to carry objects, we have less hair because natural selection ade us that way, we cant grip branches with our feet, becasue we preferred to run and walk than to climb. Things like the aids virus is constantly changing and "evolving", it doesn't become an elephant overnight, but its physiology changes just enough regularly to make it very difficult to combat It does this in resonse to host physiology, and all other sorts of environmental conditions.\nThe differences in the human population are related more to the time when their behaviours changed from nomadic hunters to sedentary farmers. If you look at Blacks, they are generally faster, taller, can jump higher, have a longer reach and are in better ohysical condition.....not becasue they were meant to play basketball, but because Africa was slower to develop other means of surviving than lets say Europe, who turned to medicine and discovery way before Africans did. Many tribes that still exist today still carry on very old means of hunting and gathering, and due to this they are much more suited for it, some caucasian person would simply not be able to cut it without modern technology....\nso as I said earlier, it is all related to environment, and the changes thta are necessary for survival that dictate what we look like and how we behave.
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well methodical scientist have traced the location of Eden back to Egypt along with the very first case of homo-erectus (i know, it sounds gross doesn't it?) so if Adam and eve were in fact the first man and woman they were tan just as the Egyptians are.
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no, no, no, Humans were created to be a slave race by aliens...
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Neanderthal and Monkey.
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Yes.\nNext major race after humans disappear
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Every half of century of so. . there is one race that sticks out from the rest and gets the charge for worst race.  It was white ppl for what they did to slaves.. it was germans for what they did to the jews and so on and so forth right now its the muslism... in another few years it will be someone else.. that's just how it seems to me that it works.  dont know who's gonna be next but it gets worst and worst.
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The inherent formula of discrimination is against rare tribes.\n  British should never consider their origin as final, nor fatalists.\n  The greatness of the white race of Britain is false in so many\n   ways, though highly experienced the old school in policies \n   versus any form of farming is non-essential.  The sharing of\n    knowledge should have a better format.
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no scientist like Darwin could prove that certain races were inferior through his theory. and he was able to figure out life. matter fact some of the most educated people are most bias on other people. hopeful some day we come to the day when racism is dead. looking forward
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Neanderthals are extinct so whether they were cannibals or not doesn't matter - and if they were, they're all dead so it can't be cured!! Also, as they were a different species of human from us cannibalism may not have been shameful for them, and I don't know of any research that claims they were cannibals in the first place.
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YES OF COURSE THEY WERE! IT DOESNT SURPRISE ME ONE BIT...black people scream racism at every chance they get, but what they dont realize they are the racist ones! in the 2000s we shouldnt even be using the words black/white anymore. i just cant believe what i hear sometimes ..makes me sick
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I believe we are all inherently racist due to our evolutionary history.  Hominids are very tribal in nature; they make tools and attack other groups of hominids.  I do my best to treat everyone equally and as I would like to be treated because I don`t want to behave like our nearest relatives, the chimps.\nI believe if we are to progress as a species we must work hard to bury some of our baser instincts.
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some of my ancestors were headhunters...they actually took pride in eating they enemies...\nIf there is any validity to evolution then you and I ain't nothin but intelligent decendants of monkey brains.\nHowever,if the holy books & all have the truth & nothin but the truth then we all got black in us,therefore,you raggin on all these white folks for nothin...
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The concept of race is just a gimmick thought up by evolutionist to justify feeling superior to some other people.  We are ONE race - HUMAN.  We are all God's children.  Let's start acting like it.
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Try reading John Milton's book, Paradise Lost...it will clear up all of your "first people on earth" questions.