Talk:Neanderthal

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This edit introduced a spelling which is not supported by Wikipedia ("Neanderthal" or technically Homo (sapiens) neanderthalensis refers to the species, while "Neandertal" refers to the region where the fossils were found). I don't think the undo link will work for that edit, so is it okay for me to proceed with a manual cleanup? --Pentium5dot1|t~^_^~c 03:56, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Content suggestions

• We need some more serious images, such as actual Neanderthal skulls, "full-body" reconstructions of Neanderthals, etc. See the Wikipedia article. Make sure that any non-skeletal pictures are serious forensic reconstructions and not modern humans in costume.

Suggestion Image source--Osmium44 18:29, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

• We need to discuss why, although Neanderthals had larger cranial capacities than modern humans, they did not demonstrate superior intelligence (e.g., many of the tools made by Neanderthals are things they could have learned from Homo sapiens).

Information--Osmium44 18:29, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

I realize that the article already briefly mentions cold climate and intelligence, but the latter should be discussed in more detail.

I will work on this a little myself as time and inspiration permit. --Pentium5dot1|t~^_^~c 04:14, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

{{Sofixit}}! ^_^ - P.M., WotM, & GUN, Sir Led Balloon (Tick Tock) (Contribs) 19:31, Aug 22

Sorry for allowing myself to become busy IRL. Due to the nature of my ideas, I will probably need to temporarily userfy a copy of the article. --Pentium5dot1|t~^_^~c 05:14, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Large brains because of large eyes

It has been hypothesized that Neanderthal brains were as large as they were in order to process the information from their large eyes, leaving less brain matter for modern human intelligence stuff. How could we work this in? --Pentium5dot1 (semi-retired) t~^_^~c 16:25, 13 March 2013 (UTC) (last edit 21:09, 28 March 2013 (UTC))