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Genesis

24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

27 So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

The Journal of Crime and Punishment- Religion 17th May 2014

Elsewere I tell the story, imaginary of course because there is no proof of creationism, genetic engineering or the virgin birth of Jesus, of how we lived in a cave in Africa, somewhere near the coast, on the eastern shore. We had chosen a cave with a waterfall outside the entrance, because then when someone came through the narrow door, the sound of the falling water would be muffled for a second. Our parents were Neanderthals, but some of the children were naked, or hairless over most of their bodies, and had blond hair and white skins. I could say I engineered them, and God made sure the embryos were implanted into the Neanderthal stock, or women. We had a small colony, and we had been Neanderthals, but although we still hunted game, we dressed in skins, had combs, knew how to make fire, and also gathered other food, such as berries, fish and shellfish. There were colonies of traditional Neanderthal around, and we were scared of them, because they were expert hunters of animals, but also hunted and ate other "humans" and Neanderthals. Their main weapon was their huge wooden club which probably weighed well over 100 lbs, but we were also strong enough to wield these weapons. We had rudimentary maps, which consisted of straight lines depicting the direction between trading points and other colonies, and the points where these lines intersected. Neanderthals were keen to hunt us and eat us so we had to always be prepared. One night there was a battle, in our cave when we were raided for our women, but we fought them off, hunted down our enemy, and rescued our captured women, finishing off the very smart and agressive animals. After that our colony thrived, and we increasingly resorted to gathering and planting grain. Who knows what the reality was. We even had a language. Mine was mostly monosylabic, with words such as Eve for the sunset, and fire, while some of the women used more complex words, such as Adam, the sound of a club hitting two Neanderthal skulls in succession.

 Neanderthals are generally classified by palaeontologists as the species Homo neanderthalensis, but a minority consider them to be a subspecies of Homo sapiens (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis).[8] The first humans with proto-Neanderthal traits are believed to have existed in Eurasia as early as 600,000–350,000 years ago.[9]

The exact date of their extinction is disputed. Fossils found in the Vindija Cave in Croatia have been dated to between 33,000 and 32,000 years old, and Neanderthal artifacts from Gorham's Cave in Gibraltar are believed to be less than 30,000 years old, but a recent study has redated fossils at two Spanish sites as 45,000 years old, 10,000 years older than previously thought, and may cast doubt on recent datings of other sites. Cro-Magnon (Eurasian Early Modern Human) skeletal remains showing some "Neanderthal traits" have been found in Lagar Velho in Portugal and dated to 24,500 years ago, and in Cioclovina in Romania dated to 35,000 years ago.

With an average cranial capacity of 1600 cc,[19] Neanderthal's cranial capacity is notably larger than the 1400 cc average for modern humans, indicating that their brain size was larger. However, due to larger body size, Neanderthals are less encephalized.[20] In 2008, a group of scientists produced a study using three-dimensional computer-assisted reconstructions of Neanderthal infants based on fossils found in Russia and Syria. The study indicated that Neanderthal and modern human brains were the same size at birth, but by adulthood, the Neanderthal brain was larger than the modern human brain.[21] They were much stronger than modern humans, having particularly strong arms and hands.[22] Males stood 164–168 cm (65–66 in) and females about 152–156 cm (60–61 in) tall.[23]
 

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