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Volcic-tentacles t1_iz458zz wrote

Only if you don't count Neanderthals as "people".

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silenthilljack t1_iz5bmvk wrote

Yup. Just keep continuing that trope.

Neanderthals have been proven to have the same intellectual power as our distant relatives. It has been speculated that were whipped out due to illness, famine and diminished resources as thy cohabitated with our distant relatives.

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KottjornGoad OP t1_izce3vs wrote

We also bred with them. Asians and Caucasians have varying degrees of Neanderthal admixture.

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turd_boy t1_iz4hjb0 wrote

>Only if you don't count Neanderthals as "people".

I mean... Not anymore, I'm not that bad at math.

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Rasayana85 t1_iz4yv6r wrote

Are you suggesting a land bridge between Africa and Europe, or that they somehow traversed the water?

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a_statistician t1_iz52pfm wrote

Is it really that hard to think that they might have crossed the Strait of Gibralter? Low sea levels in an ice age made it possible to cross from Asia into the Americas through a land bridge, why is the same thing not likely in the 9 mile gap between modern Spain and Morocco?

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MarkDavisNotAnother t1_iz5trfq wrote

Isn’t Gibraltar a bit further south that the proposed land bridge between Asia an N America?

Not to mention wind current patterns potentially having an effect.

I could understand one being frozen solid while the other… less so solid.

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a_statistician t1_iz5wceb wrote

I think the bigger issue is that with more water locked into the ice caps, seas would have been lower worldwide. I don't disagree with you on the fact that the water would have been liquid there, but one hypothesis for the origin of many of the "flood" stories and "Atlantis" style stories is that a land bridge like the one near Gibralter or the one forming one end of the Red sea was "topped" by rising seas and became essentially a waterfall, resulting in the filling of an entire basin and the erosion of what was at one point a land bridge. That would explain language like "... on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened." (Genesis 7:11) that talk not only about rain falling from the sky, but also from it coming from the earth as well.

This is 100% not my area of expertise, but I think it's interesting how much of the data we can observe about some of this stuff doesn't tell us about all of the data we're missing because it's been destroyed over time and natural processes.

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