http://rdos.net/eng/
Quote:
General findings
Aspie Quiz have researched many probable Neanderthal traits.
As can be seen, the Hn factor becomes almost two millions years old and the g factor becomes 37,000 years old, which is the time of the hybridization. The most likely interpretation is that Hn factor is Eurasian diversity, Hs factor is the evolution of modern humans, and g factor is the introduction of Euroasian diversity through interbreeding with Neanderthals 30,000 - 50,000 years ago. In Aspie Quiz, Hn factor is used to calculate the Aspie-score, Hs factor is used to calculate neurotypical score, and g factor is positively correlated with Aspie ability group and negatively correlated with Aspie disability group. It therefore is likely that g factor is related to g-factor in intelligence tests.
A series of compelling genetic studies and it's correlation with our own Aspie quiz scores. If you hadn't noticed while taking the quiz, there are numerous questions in there that aren't standard criteria for diagnosis but specifically relative to H. Neanderthalensis behavior; there is a 1-4% presence of Neanderthalensis genes in the general population after all. This is especially intriguing when you take into account that there is the occurrence of ASD amongst people of African ancestry is 1/6 that of occurrence amongst people of Indo-European ancestry.
There are also some exciting comparisons between ASD behavior and symptoms, and adaptations to a cold climate.
Quote:
According to a research study, body lice evolved 70,000 years ago. 92 Woven cloth seems to date back at least 27,000 years in Europe. 93 This seems to indicate that clothes and artificial warming is a recent happening in our species. There is no compelling evidence for artificial warming with fires or tailormade clothes in Neanderthals. Therefore, Neanderthals most likely had fur. Without fur they would not be able to survive in Finland in between ice-ages, nor in Europe during the ice-ages. There is a genetic difference called congenital hypertrichosis, which essentially is fur in modern humans. 94 The reports of this "disorder" seems to indicate an origin from guanchos from the canary-islands. It's interesting that this hair is unpigmented. People with congenital hypertrichosis also show long, prominent back of the nose and a round nose tip and lag in the development of the first and second dentition. It's common with more body-hair in Europeans, and especially in people with autism. 95 Peeling skin flakes from self or others is also common in autistics. 96This seems to be a grooming behavior commonly seen in other primates which indicates an evolutionary past with a fur-coat.
Utterly fascinating.
_________________
There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.
Nahj ul-Balāgha by Ali bin Abu-Talib
21 Jun 2015, 9:14 pm
