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Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by hutzlibu on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:31PM (#21775402)
"It's not so much about them being closely related. Rather it's the idea that a mind so distant from my own, that lived a life so alien from my own drew that. I find that deeply fascinating."

Well, genetically they were not much different, close enough for interbreeding.

But their mind ... and culture was probably very alien to us.

Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by danieltillett on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:53PM (#21775647)
There is enough Neanderthal DNA in the modern non-sub-Saharan human population (we all have a few percent Neanderthal DNA, but that few percent is different in each of us) that some people probably think like Neanderthals.
Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by hutzlibu on Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:56PM (#21776358)
I was more talking about the different mindset ... coming from a very different culture.

My point was actually that the DNA difference probably does not lead to a very different thinking. But different culture does.

Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by danieltillett on Friday December 13, 2019 @12:25AM (#21779326)
We certainly know that different DNA leads to different thinking or else we would think like a chimpanzee. The question is does Neanderthal thinking live on in our modern culture. I have no idea, but it is a testable hypothesis.
Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by hutzlibu on Friday December 13, 2019 @04:00AM (#21780147)
Surely does different DNA leads to different thinking. But when interbreeding is possible, differences might not be great ... much smaller than the cultural differences
Re:Animal painting found in cave is 44k years old by danieltillett on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:34PM (#21786251)
That is a hypothesis, not something we know. Having three children of my own all very different to each other in thinking makes me doubt culture has much influence on how people think.