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Topic Started: Aug 28 2009, 07:48 PM (1,584 Views)
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I don't think we are. From what little I know/remember about the boring age (Between the Upper Palaeolithic and 1714 A.D.) the Cro-Magnon (or at least the Primitive Britons) were absorbed and replaced by the Celts and their ancestors, who were also mostly replaced and absorbed themselves.
If you have Western European ancestor there might be some Cro-Magnon in you, but not a lot.

The attractiveness might not have been all that much of a problem. Remember Rule 36?
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i thought neanderthal was just a subspecies?
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Nope we checked there DNA and they are definitely different.

Is anyone getting a annoying advert for something called Survival about Tribes? What crock of shit. Tribes have wars! Tribes Pollute! Tribes have poverty! They are human beings not fucking elves!
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Our minds are programmed to accept the Golden Ratio (1.6 units by 1 unit) as the concept of "beautiful..."


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The Golden Ratio is something in Geometry, but also appears in everything else from math, art, music, to even how human faces look. If a human face matches the Golden Ratio then it is considered to have perfect proportions.
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no, i get a human family tree ad from national geographic
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How can experiments be done with neanderthal/cro-magnon interaction when neanderthals are extinct? Not criticizing, just curious.


Actually this is pretty darn cool.

First, through all those awesome methods most of us here probably already know they reconstructed a ton of Neanderthal faces and from that decided on their 'norms' like proportions and so forth. Next they used this to apply some pretty realistic looking make-up to some one.

Next, for a control they took another guy and just made him look as butt-fugly as possible. Think Ferengi-klingon with out the skull-cap.

Next they had them both walk around a city in England and later New York City. After a while they started to realize something: People were disgusted by the control, while they hapily accepted the Neanderthal. He was going to win a beauty contest, but there was something weird there, at least one person acted like he was Brad Pitt.

So, I imagine they could have easily have found mates. Probably the same way we get attracted to 'exotic' people. An early version of this experiment (without the control) was shown on a documentary about Neanderthals.
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Now THAT'S interesting. And I can see the point about being attracted to exotic people (I'm kind of attracted to the Oriental people myself :lol:). So if it was possible for neanderthals to breed with us, then it probably happened. However, it's all up to genetics.
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You know what's really odd? Most caucasian men, as far as I can tell, are attracted to Asian women. I really have no idea why. I know we are somehow subconsciously attracted to people with a different immune system then ours, I wonder if this is somehow the same thing? An instinct to create a stronger offspring through genetic diversity.

I'm interested in fair-skin women, too (you know, part black and part white). I guess this kind of blows out the whole idea we find the 'norm' the most sexually attractive.
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You know what's really odd? Most caucasian men, as far as I can tell, are attracted to Asian women. I really have no idea why. I know we are somehow subconsciously attracted to people with a different immune system then ours, I wonder if this is somehow the same thing? An instinct to create a stronger offspring through genetic diversity.

I'm interested in fair-skin women, too (you know, part black and part white). I guess this kind of blows out the whole idea we find the 'norm' the most sexually attractive.
The only reason is because Asian women could retain teenage features into their 40's. They also are a lot less annoying than most white women.
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mainly the less annoying factor comes into play.
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It is queer how it's mostly Oriental women if we are just after something exotic. I suspect there is not the same draw to Africans, Indians or Arabs, so it is probably something about them specifically.

I suspect among white men, the races preferred by the majority would be white, Oriental and mixed race. By Mixed race I mean like the token black people in adverts. Black enough to count but not enougth to scare.

As for them being less annoying? Well that probably because you don't interact with them as much. I'm sure there are just as many greedy, whiny bitches in Peking as there are in New York.

Perhaps it is cultural rather than biological. Apart from the UK to some extent, the big 4 English speaking nations have had "interesting" histories with the Chinese and Japanese. Yellow Peril and the failure of the racial equality at the Treaty of Versailles. That might have played a role.

And I had heard the Neanderthal costume was discredited, but that might have just been that people would not notice how they were not human.
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I suppose that makes since. But we still do display some Neanderthal behaviors (like funerals).

Cultural, huh? Well, back during the Korean War there was a comic strip about an Asian woman's hot adventures, obviously nothing to explicit, but enough to where most adults could catch the joke. I don't know of any other examples. So, maybe.
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It is queer how it's mostly Oriental women if we are just after something exotic. I suspect there is not the same draw to Africans, Indians or Arabs, so it is probably something about them specifically.

I suspect among white men, the races preferred by the majority would be white, Oriental and mixed race. By Mixed race I mean like the token black people in adverts. Black enough to count but not enougth to scare.

As for them being less annoying? Well that probably because you don't interact with them as much. I'm sure there are just as many greedy, whiny bitches in Peking as there are in New York.

Perhaps it is cultural rather than biological. Apart from the UK to some extent, the big 4 English speaking nations have had "interesting" histories with the Chinese and Japanese. Yellow Peril and the failure of the racial equality at the Treaty of Versailles. That might have played a role.

And I had heard the Neanderthal costume was discredited, but that might have just been that people would not notice how they were not human.
No Asian women are much less annoying, out of all the Asian girls I have met (and that would be a good amount) only one has been about half as annoying as most white girls. Around here every time a man is sent to China or Korea for business he will always come back with a young, quiet Asian woman.
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Actually I'm fairly sure Neanderthal burials were just disposing of waste in a efficient manor. I know the idea they were buried with flowers is incorrect. That was show to just be random pollen that blew in.

I still doubt that. Despite my interest in Japan and China the only Oriental people I know are my dentist and a Manchu bloke from China who used to practice his English on me. And only my dentist is a woman, who I don't think is any less pleasant than my previous white male dentist. Easier on the eye though.
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