Homo neanderthalensis went extinct for unknown reasons an estimated 40,000 years ago. Perhaps better renamed “Homo navigatus”, these ironically enigmatic hominids doggedly traversed the world, rubbing shoulders and cooperating with close relatives Homo sapiens.
Of interest to us because of the monumental role they have played in the development of the human world as it is now, many aeons later, Neanderthals represent a dark flipside to our history that we know a paltry amount about. What do Neanderthals have to do with Buzz-Concepts? I personally don’t even think Neanderthals had language, and if they did it would have been extremely basic, i.e. a system of suggestive grunts – but definitely not a sophisticated system with abstract meaning (which most probably constitutes a characteristic unique to our species). So not much, I’ll say it, but, like with all of the most important historical developments, prehistoric Neanderthal involvement bleeds into everything in some way.
Moreover, there has been a reasonable amount of interbreeding between Neanderthals and humans. We all therefore have some Neanderthal DNA, with the exact proportions varying from race to race.
Africans have been found to have the least Neanderthal DNA. Why? Neanderthals never lived in Africa. But moreover: the Africans who did happen to encounter Neanderthals were totally averse to them and simply never gave heed to the idea that people should be buddying up with this brutish other species. Word was spread to keep heads down just in case these monsters might come their way. They cultivated foresight instead, instinctively understanding how much strength the mysterious intrusions must have been sapping up in the others. They understood that this foresight was the way forward, and duly adopted a zero tolerance approach to dealing with intrusion in their realm as the heirs to the Original, pure human cultures. This is why Africans continue to be steadfast to this day. Africans are indeed miraculously totally averse to the Neanderthal-derived strand of our heritage.
With the only group who had what it took to defeat the Neanderthal curse fully and properly refusing to leave Africa, the other Eurasia-bound voyaging groups weren’t sufficiently fortuitously insightful, and other ethnicities did become somewhat saturated -you might say- with Neanderthal genes. Interbreeding from a human standpoint was partly voluntary and partly involuntary; it all had to do with Neanderthal physical might, being significantly stronger than humans’. Voluntarily, people sought solace and protection in the arms of the mighty Neanderthal. Involuntarily, Neanderthals would resort to violence to acquire desired mating partners.
Neanderthals were quite simply obsessed with us. They adored us so much, in fact, that they invented the very concept/skill of logicality in trying to impress us and win us over. Seriously. My findings suggest that it wasn’t the Ancient Greeks who invented logicality but non-humans i.e. Neanderthals! Invented haphazardly by Neanderthals, it was picked up and built on by the ancestors of today’s Orientalesques (East Asians & Amerindians), however many tens of thousands of years ago, who in due course shared it with other people. The Neanderthals imprinted on the Orientalesques (once they had headed to Eurasia) and subjected them to overwhelming amounts of harassment. The Orientalesques only just made it through to the other side with their heightened rationality from the famine*, ironically. They picked up the new aptitude offered up on a metaphorical platter from the broody aggressive Neanderthals, and would eventually employ it to relieve themselves of this curse when the time came thousands of years later.
*The famine back in Proto-Africa in which a group, the ancestors of today’s Orientalesques, survived extreme traumatisation by retreating inwards and inventing a new type of human language. This made it possible for other groups to do the same. And now we have Google Translate!
Aeons later, the Ancient Greeks picked up this strand of the human experience from a formal standpoint. “Pre-Nostratic” (the first language spoken by prehistoric Nostratics upon breaking away from the “Proto-Global” template) having been “the Language of Intuition”, Nostratic peoples are all intuitive. The Ancient Greeks, Western Indo-Europeans, drew intuitively from their collective hereditary memory and clocked that some time very long ago, people had been onto something very major (the Hellenic language(s) = “the Major Tongue(s)”) – what we now understand as logicality. To this day, Greek people are obsessed with East Asians. They duly set about translating the phenomenon into a versatile formal foundation.
So no, they weren’t human.
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