Comments on: Are you human or a dud?

By: You and me baby ain’t nothin’ but mammals | a free man

You and me baby ain’t nothin’ but mammals | a free man — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:16:08 +0000

[...] sorts of things think that Neandertals were probably pretty decent folks. They used tools, “they took care of individuals that would not have been able to provide for themselves, there are bur….” Maybe even more civilised than our human ancestors who very possibly killed them and ate [...]

By: You and me baby ain’t nothin’ but mammals | a free man

You and me baby ain’t nothin’ but mammals | a free man — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:16:08 +0000

By: tysdaddy

tysdaddy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:26:47 +0000

Fascinating stuff, all in the 150th year since Darwin's Origin. I have bookmarked this post and plan to dig in a bit deeper this evening. But, dude, way to go! tysdaddys last blog post..For Mature Audiences Only

By: Nathan B.

Nathan B. — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:04:00 +0000

FYI, Mizzou beat the Neanderthals from KU last night…

By: SSG

SSG — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:43:47 +0000

dude you're too clever for your own good. I think a dud is sometimes easier than being human. Is your electricity down again? SSGs last blog post..Back in blighty

By: Teri

Teri — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:05:53 +0000

Just thinking about you with respect to the recent fires. I really don't know where in Austrailia you are. Hoping you and your readers/friends/family are OK. It looked awful from the bit of footage I saw on the news. Sending well wishes. Teris last blog post..Lucky People

By: heather

heather — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:02:57 +0000

O.K. I like the competitive exclusion hypothesis (like invasive species). Could there be a combination effect with the climate changes based on the core records and other species extinction? I know that the introduction of AMH wiped out several large animal species in North America. Possible Neanderthal food sources? heathers last blog post..This lets me know that you suck:

By: yellojkt

yellojkt — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:58:36 +0000

My father-in-law was Basque and they are so culturally different from other Europeans that I always wondered if there weren't a little Neandertal way back in their background, but I guess the genetics make that improbable. yellojkts last blog post..He's Just Not That Into Baltimore

By: Nathan B.

Nathan B. — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:32:15 +0000

Chris, I think your point about small, fragile populations is a good one, but for a different reason. To me, I’d wager that disease played a larger role in the “victory” of AMH (as you mentioned earlier in that post). Not necessarily disease form cannibalism, but from contact between the two species. Exposure to a foreign disease (i.e. smallpox, measles) seems much more logical to me than competition for deer, berries or some other resource.

By: Jason O.

Jason O. — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:51:48 +0000

Is there a method to delete embarrassing posts? I read the materials & methods section. There's no doubt that you and your colleagues use best-practice assumptions. Another point in your favor: Since you're looking back several thousand years, there's a reduced risk for the availability and confirmation biases (as Dr. Pielke so ably illustrates) that so plague the IPCC, et al. 1) An interesting quote from the paper re: the foundation of climate modeling: "Therefore, the climate simulations used in the present study are unique for several reasons: they use updated SST reconstructions, mid-size ice-sheets, greenhouse gas levels, and orbital parameters appropriate for the periods that bracket Heinrich event 4. The resulting climate is obviously dependent on the hypotheses built up in the boundary conditions we used, and on the climate model itself, but we do not know of any equivalent experiments, with an equivalent model, that have high resolution over Europe." Congratulations, you have a creative, ingenious European climate model with at best indirect experimental validation of the inputs. You'll have to forgive me: In my world, industrial clients demand a huge validation suite (i.e., a large sample of dozens of runs on several different case environments) demonstrating simulation results of +/- 2% variance vs. physical experiment. Bottom line: without experimental data for verification, one must treat GCM data with care. Jason O.s last blog post..Stimulus and "The Multiplier Effect"