Sep. 12, 2008 - Now, I'm no paleoanthropologist...
And I don't have access to the full article at AAAS, but am I the only one who reads the blurb below and thinks, hmm...another sign that perhaps the Neandertals were just a variant of modern humans--possibly a population with wide spread rickets in the post-Flood/Ice Age era where much available sunlight was blocked by volcanic activity? (See Lubenow's Bones of Contention for more on that theory.) If one doesn't buy goo to you evolution lock, stock and barrel would this rate as news worthy or just in the "well, duh" category?
Blessings, Holly
PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Brainy Babies and Risky Births for Neandertals
Ann Gibbons
A new study of a rare Neandertal newborn and two infants shows that our closest relatives were born with brains as large as ours and that those brains grew rapidly during the first few years of life.
