Neanderthals Were Compassionate and Caring

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Analysis by Jennifer Viegas

Neanderthals are often depicted as brutish club wielders, but a new book suggests Neanderthals had a sensitive side, displaying "a deep seated sense of compassion."

The findings, also published in the journal Time & Mind, are part of a larger study charting how empathy and other related feelings evolved in early humans.

Researchers Penny Spikins, Andy Needham and Holly Rutherford from the University of York Archaeology Department examined archaeological evidence for the way emotions began to emerge in our ancestors six million years ago and then developed through more recent times.

Based on fossils, artifacts and other evidence, the scientists propose a four stage model for the development of human compassion:

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I propose a 5th stage, when the tea partiers take over and outlaw all compassion as it is communistic-socialistic-nazism...

[flakey_foont]

1. unlike today's neanderthals

[WingDinger]

2. Regressives will claim that is why they went extinct!

[FiveGoodMen]

3. I can picture that scenario

They tried to reach across the aisle to their Cro-Magnon neighbors and refused to learn their lesson when they were mercilessly attacked every time.

[dimbear]

4. Are we not men? We are.........Devo. n/t

[mikelgb]

5. And then they discovered fire.

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