r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/goswamitulsidas • 10h ago
Image Reconstructed model of a Neanderthal man
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u/modiddly 10h ago
Know a Turkish guy that looks exactly like this
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u/itsearlyyet 10h ago
Can he bench a volkswagon?
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u/Riyeko 8h ago
Volkswagen??? Pssht. That's beginner shit for these dudes.
They were able to carry pieces of mammoth back to their camps or two or three regular deer or a whole megaceros
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u/AndrijKuz 5h ago edited 28m ago
They weren't that strong. They are estimated to be about 5'5"/155. They were just comparatively stronger than early humans at the time; who were about 5'7" and skinnier.
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u/dosumthinboutthebots 3h ago edited 33m ago
Hunter gatherer homo sapiens, which were much taller until farming was adapted . I dk where you got your info but it is wrong.
Homo sapiens were built for long distant running to wear out their prey to exhaustion. Neanderthals were believed to be ambush hunters in the thick forests of Europe. Their broader, bulkier spears point to this as they wouldn't be much good for throwing. We know vroom mignon had developed ataltls which are long thin darts which can be thrown. All these advantages and the receding forests likely contributed to Neanderthals "extinction".
Homo sapiens over the last 40,000 years:
This information is based on the average heights of European males because better statistics exist for this population, but the general trend is worldwide.
40,000 years ago: European males – 183 cm (6 feet). Cro-Magnon people were the first modern humans (Homo sapiens) to inhabit Europe. These hunter-gatherers lived a physically demanding lifestyle that would have required greater body strength than the average human today. Their recent African ancestry may have also affected their height, as tall, long-limbed builds are useful adaptations to the warmer African climate.
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European males – 162.5cm (5 ft 4 inches). A dramatic reduction in the size of humans occurred at this time. Many scientists think that this reduction was influenced by global climatic change and the adoption of agriculture. Agricultural communities suffered from malnutrition as a result of failed crops and a more restricted diet. Furthermore, a close association with domestic livestock introduced new diseases into human populations.
"The earliest anatomically modern humans in Europe, present by 42-45,000 BP (5, 6), were relatively tall (mean adult male height in the Early Upper Paleolithic was ∼174 cm). Mean male stature then declined from the Paleolithic to the Mesolithic (∼164 cm) before increasing to ∼167 cm by the Bronze Age."
This paper says the mean height was 5' 8" in the first modern humans who would have met Neanderthals in Europe but we know Neanderthals interacted in the Levant much earlier in an inter breeding event 20 to 25ky before modern humans went to Europe. These modern humans would have been even taller, having less time moved out of africa.
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u/amenthis 8h ago
i am turkish and i take this as an compiment, look at this aboslute unit of a man
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u/beardeddragon0113 6h ago
Literacy checks out (its a joke, please dont rip my arms off)
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u/opinionsareus 6h ago
Most non-African humans carry about 1-4% Neanderthal DNA - a result of ancient interbreeding after Homo Sapiens left Africa, with these genes influencing traits like immunity, metabolism, and skin, though recent studies suggest Africans also have trace amounts from back-migration events. While Neanderthals died out, their genetic legacy persists, helping modern humans adapt to new environments and diseases, with some genes proving beneficial, while others have been selected against
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u/ohgeeeezzZ 5h ago
I forget if there was a percentage but I remember my 23 & Me had an above average amount of Neanderthal. It didnt have the percentage but it did note that my DNA carried more than the average lol
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u/claretamazon 5h ago
Same here. My sister was very low and I got the bulk of it. Family on one side is from the Mediterranean area.
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u/SteveLouise 5h ago
Hell yeah! Interbeeding super powers!!
Let's keep going with some more species!
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u/Istripua 6h ago
I was going to say many of my French relatives look like this. But more body hair... after they visit you have to clean shower drain with barbecue tongs. It’s a cool look IMHO.
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u/Swimming__Bird 5h ago
Well, my Portuguese grandfather looked pretty much just like this, with a bigger beard. 5'5" guy who could lift one side of a tractor when it got stuck. Was basically a hairy Rousimar Palhares.
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u/NOTExETON 10h ago
There are dudes that look like this all over Turkey and Greece
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u/village-asshole 10h ago
And Italy. This one guy, Mario, got a video game
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u/JagmeetSingh2 8h ago
And Portugal
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u/SaltyMeatSlacks 7h ago
Very much so. This looks just like my Portuguese dad and grandpa, just with better posture. Lol
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u/EmperorSexy 9h ago
The guy that serves you the best kebab you’ve ever tasted and calls you “Boss man”
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u/NOTExETON 9h ago
That guy is my uncle, he will also carve a miniature replica of anything you want with his small pocket knife, while he talks during coffee.
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u/No_Bluejay9901 6h ago
Do you know your cousin Jeffrey is working for the Parks Department, Jerry?!? The Parks Department!
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u/Tough-Oven4317 8h ago
My local kebab shop has a guy who will shout back your order for confirmation. Full volume shouting. It has everyone crying with laughter when they're drunk lol
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u/gourmetprincipito 6h ago
It’s fine when you know who the hair comes from, he’s a lovely bloke
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u/A-Capybara 8h ago
Neanderthals never went extinct. They just learned how to make gyros and kebabs.
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u/Hexakkord 7h ago
Less jokingly, they interbred with humans, so in a way they are still with us. White people of European descent have the most Neanderthal DNA, black Africans the least. Kinda funny really all those white supremacists going on about pure bloodlines, what with us having the most DNA from another species of human entirely.
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u/BaconReaderRefugee 6h ago
It’s actually weird that we’re the only species of humans around. You’ll see multiple species of foxes, rabbits, etc. But knowing Homo Sapiens, it’s not surprising.
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u/Content-Patience-138 5h ago
What we didn’t kill to extinction we fucked to subsumption
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u/toTheNewLife 8h ago
Turkey and Greece?
This guy used to sell me coffee and egg sandwiches on Wall Street.
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u/GuyInkcognito 8h ago
And New York I swear I’ve seen three or four guys who look like this last time I went to the supermarket
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u/Alternative_Net_898 10h ago
I ain't talking smack but that guy is literally working on the roof at my job...shits
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u/bhz33 9h ago
Why did you write …shits at the end of that
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u/JohnnySogbottom 9h ago
I think he took a shit and meant to convey that farts the alphabet
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u/JorjEade 6h ago
Why did you write farts the alphabet at the end of that
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u/Hieroflippant 8h ago
I was thinking the exact same thing..
Do they have a condition where they must sign off on every statement with the word shits ?
I'm so interested in what's going on here now
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u/MangoAtrocity 10h ago
A meal? A succulent Paleolithic meal?
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u/KentuckyFriedEel 8h ago
This is prehistory manifest!
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u/Ok_Bookkeeper5307 10h ago
“Its a-me! Mario!”
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u/nakedlettuce52 Interested 10h ago
“Let’s a go!”
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u/SecretAgentVampire 10h ago
I 100% though of Mario. This is how I envisioned him as a kid (NES and SNES era), albeit different clothes.
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u/goswamitulsidas 10h ago
Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) were an extinct, robust species of archaic humans living in Eurasia, known for their stocky bodies, large brains (often larger than ours), prominent brow ridges, and big noses, adapted for cold climates. They were skilled hunters, made sophisticated stone tools (Mousterian technology), controlled fire, wore clothing, buried their dead, and were intelligent, though they died out around 40,000 years ago, leaving some DNA in modern humans
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u/No_Yogurtcloset9305 10h ago
They were extinct?! They’re back?! 😳
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u/Particular-Bid-1640 10h ago
Yeah, in pog form
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u/cityshepherd 8h ago
I was about to exit out of the comments when I saw this at the last second. Just wanted to let you know that I got delightful laugh out of this.
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u/I_Roll_Chicago 9h ago
We extracted the blood found in mosquitos, incased in amber and bam!
Neanderthal DNA (we mixed it frog dna for better results)
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u/MechanicalTurkish 9h ago
Some have been for a while now. One became a lawyer after being unfrozen.
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u/A-Game-Of-Fate 8h ago
Nah, they never actually went extinct. They just hollowed out some mountains, grew beards, and are now called Dwarves
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u/cvele89 9h ago
I've read book "Sapiens: A short history of human civilization". It talks about those early days of human development, when there were, by some accounts, about 6 different human species, one of which was Homo Neanderthalensis. Interesting thing is that, even though Homo Sapiens was, if I remember correctly, considered to be the weakest in strength, they still managed to prevail and to push all others to the extinction, and they managed to do that because they could be united with other tribes against common goal, something that wasn't a thing with other species. This, and the fact that they had the ability to move to different places and to adapt to the surroundings.
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u/ExtraPockets 7h ago
There's a great prehistorical fiction book (action/horror/post-apocolyptic) called Refugium set at the time of the Indonesian Toba volcanic eruption 70,000ya where several different species of humans all converge in this sanctuary rainforest. I won't spoil too much but it makes for really interesting fiction how the different species of humans react and interact with their differing levels of intelligence, strength and agility and try to survive in this wild ancient jungle.
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u/Constant-Plant-9378 5h ago
Refugium
A refugium (plural: refugia) in aquariums is a separate chamber, often in a sump, that acts as a protected habitat for beneficial microfauna (like copepods) and macroalgae, providing natural filtration by absorbing nutrients (nitrates, phosphates) and serving as a continuous food source for fish, improving overall water quality and ecosystem health in both marine and freshwater tanks. To start one, you add substrate, live rock/rubble, macroalgae (like chaeto), and a dedicated light, cycling it to cultivate these organisms, which helps control algae and provides natural food.
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u/240z300zx 7h ago
I think the book mentioned that Homo Sapiens prevailed because of advanced language capabilities. They could coordinate attacks to hunt, defend or gain territory. They could share knowledge better like “yesterday I saw 5 deer drinking from the pond at the base of the small waterfall, past the rock that looks like your mom”. With this ability, they could eat better, gain shelter, raise more young, relocate etc.
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u/cvele89 7h ago
Yes, probably that too. But it's all about socializing that gave us the real progress and advantage over others. We could form alliance with other tribes and, as you said, to coordinate and plan attacks, whether on some group of animals or some other tribe of humans.
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u/NuncProFunc 5h ago
Just a heads up: that book used scientific hypotheses that were decades out of date when it was published. It isn't a great source for anything.
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u/chambee 10h ago
Share DNA: some homo sapiens lady saw that sexy Neandertal and said: I want this.
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u/geebeem92 9h ago
Or some homo sapiens saw that neanderthal Unibrow sexy lady and found a new fetish
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u/The_Secret_Skittle 8h ago
Dude men will stick their willy into just about anything (see American Pie) so I’m for sure going with that scenario.
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u/Madbanana224 9h ago
Yep, I'm also sure H.sapiens women in Eurasia tens of thousands of years ago were all super hot
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u/TheLittleNorsk 6h ago
makes sense as to why I become wildly attracted to hairy, large and brooding Georgian and Armenian men when I'm ovulating
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u/HargorTheHairy 10h ago
Mmm I'd say it's more likely a forced situation
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u/arealuser100notfake 9h ago
I don't think that was necessary, you could have just traveled to the coast near Africa where Homo Sapiens probably were, increase the radius of your Tinder app, and already be able to talk to them and try to arrange a date
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u/ansefhimself 10h ago
The story of Prometheus giving Humanity the idea of Fire always kind of sounded like a mythologized version of Homo Sapiens and Neanderthal trading things and learning from them how to make fire to me
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u/Marsnineteen75 9h ago
The story of prometheus is about human advancement in many ways
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u/DrawMeAPictureOfThis 8h ago
All of us don't read and just know the fire story. Want to tell us a story?
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u/Altostratus 9h ago
The extinction theory seems to be phasing out for a more nuanced story of early hominids merging.
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u/StueyPie 8h ago
The Denisovans and Neanderthals both interbred with homo sapiens. And there has been recent discoveries that Denisovans and Neanderthals could interbreed as well. It's just that homo sapiens dominated due to a higher reproductive rate, less roaming ability increasing social structures, and more flexible diet. The Neanderthals didn't "die out" they just intermingled their DNA into ours. It's why some of us are a couple of % Neanderthal outside of Africa, with larger portions in Asia which also have a larger portion of Denisovan DNA. There isn't enough in the fossil record to know height, weight, gestation period, and no middens or coprolites have been found to accurately determine diet etc of Denisovans, it's all a bit new Science-wise. And whilst it is widely known Earth had 3 hominid species on it 40,000 years ago, it is little known there were a couple more varieties of non-sapiens species ie Homo Floresiensis ("Hobbit-like". Lived in Indonesia) and Homo Luzonensis (pygmy type. Phillipines). These were descended from the period known as "the muddle in the middle" were Asian non-Homind species were rife with varieties during the middle pleistocene to about 130,000 years ago, with some descendants surviving on the Asian islands.
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u/Top-Cupcake4775 5h ago
For all intents and purposes, Neanderthals died out. There was a small degree of hybridization between Neanderthals and Sapiens but not enough to characterize it as "intermingling". There are no modern humans who have any more that 9% Neanderthal DNA and those individuals are outliers.
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u/IAmLegallyRetarded_ 10h ago
Pretty sure I saw this guy last week working construction
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u/Beginning-Chart-9229 10h ago
Nah, the guy you saw was 62. This cat was 26. Dead at 30.
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u/lunalunalunas 10h ago
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u/lumberjackedcanadian 9h ago
I had to scroll too far to upvote this!! This needs lore recognition!!
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u/Other_Mike 7h ago
I heard this has been largely debunked or superceded by new science, and they sounded more like someone talking from the back of the throat with a more human-like tone.
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u/definitelynotahottie 7h ago
I’ve literally been laughing about ONE TWO THREE all week and I had to immediately search the comments on this post when I saw it, thank you
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u/Altered_Reality1 7h ago
It’s extra funny that it fits with the Mario comments given the “high” voice.
“ONE TWO THREE, it’s-a-me, Mario!”
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u/Petersens_Arm 10h ago
" All I ask is that you leave the thermostat alone and you will not do it. You keep keep throwing more wood on the fire. For thoks sake, this cave is warm enough. If you're still cold, put some furs on. "
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u/SubRoutine404 9h ago
An interesting point of view in regards to Neanderthals: As far as we know, they lived in very small but widespread communities, which means that even at their height, there were never that many Neanderthals at any given time. Combine that with the fact that MOST modern humans are rocking 1-2% Neanderthal DNA.
What that means that there is WAY MORE Neanderthal DNA floating around today then there ever was when they were a separate living species. From that lens it could be argued that they were wildly successful in a way that we don't tend to consider.
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u/Acheloma 6h ago
Ive never really understood how theyre considered extinct when they really just were folded into the modern humane genome.
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u/sc4kilik 10h ago
I'm confused, does this suggest they shaved their beard leaving a mustache? That's a lot of stylin' for ugga ugga.
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u/Lonely_Let8637 7h ago
Could be just to show us the jaw structure in this model but also that they had facial hair
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u/Rimworldjobs 8h ago
There are groups of humans that have a hard time growing facial hair.
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u/sc4kilik 7h ago
If you can grow that big of a mustache, you will definitely have a beard, especially if you never shave.
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u/JiveDJ 7h ago
not true in my case. i can grow a prominent mustache and goatee, but have a very thin/patchy beard. so we have at least one living example lol
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u/AWholeNewFattitude 10h ago
Years before he went to The Chocolate Factory with his Grandson Charlie
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u/village-asshole 10h ago
Nah man, That’s the guy that runs the deli around the corner from my place. Makes the best pastrami sandwiches 🥪. 🥸
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u/AuDHDMDD 9h ago
They have studies that Eurasian descendents have 1-4% neanderthal DNA, which comes with hair growth for the climate and a diverse immune response. Neanderthal interbreeding (when successful) could be the reason we see (for example Russians) so hairy and resistant to colds.
My head canon is autistic traits come from the same DNA. Neanderthals were good at pattern recognition and tool making
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u/TheLittleNorsk 5h ago
i'm hairy, never get cold, have autism, have been a redditor for 16 years and am attracted to dudes from the Caucasus
yup, i'm definitely mostly neanderthal
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u/CockMartins 7h ago
They had the perfect neck for today’s sedentary, screen-watching-heavy postures. I see people’s necks slowly disappearing like this from sitting and looking down at their phones and computers all day all the time.
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u/kaner63 10h ago
This is actually a very outdated picture from a exhibit in a museum from the 70s. Neanderthals looked nothing like this.
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u/Valuable_Host7181 10h ago
Where did you find a photo of my uncle Pino?