What Would the Neanderthal Say

What would be the words of Neanderthal, what he/she would like to know? Would he/she say something like "Hi, guys, how are the things going with you"? Or maybe something more pragmatical like "I'm hungry"?Nowadays, the poor Neanderthal can only say what the scientists want him/her to say. The most intelligent and effective brains at Florida Atlantic University at Boca Raton have modeled larynx of Neanderthal, so with some computer help they are able to replicate possible sounds that the Neanderthals would make.(So that Neanderthal would say nothing comprehensible, just make some sounds that would probably make sense only to another of his/her kind).The Neanderthals, a species of the Homo genus that appeared in Europe about 350 000 years ago and was named after the German Neandertal valley where the first Neanderthal remains were found, had a blurred fate & some believe that they evolved to a separate species which became extinct and were replaced by early modern humans moving from Africa, whereas others suppose that Neanderthals was a contemporary subspecies which incidentally bread with Homo sapiens and disappeared through absorption. And there are also theories explaining that Neanderthals never split from Homo sapiens and most of their populations transformed into anatomically modern humans. Actually, Neanderthal may ask how are we all & his/hers descendants - doing and the scientists could ask what really happen to all the Neanderthals breed and where's the truth. And the Neanderthal might start talking about his/her life so we could complete the history of human beings. What we know is knowledge acquired by the fossils, giving us informations about their average height (they were 1.65 m tall (just under 5' 5")), largeness of heir braincases - they had much more larger cranial capacity that we have now, had robust builds, were well-adopted to the cold climate and were using simple tools made mostly of stone, bones, antlers or wood.Actually, he would at least say "things have changed a lot since I've been gone".

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080416/od_afp/scienceanthropologyneanderthalsoffbeat;_ylt=Aq3rj1jwPojkQcq9bTCsQwKs0NUE

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