'Adventurous' women needed as surrogat for Neanderthal baby

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Depends on how you define "human". When you consider it as an "intellectual animal" i.e. an animal that has the ability to abstract universals and understand their relations then the argument can be made that neanderthals were human.

Human means Homo-Sapien. End of story. What you're describing is sentience.

 

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Human means Homo-Sapien. End of story. What you're describing is sentience.

No, "human" is not necessarily restricted to the latin "wise man" (homo sapiens) as it is used in some taxonomies (familiarize yourself with the "species problem" to understand why). And sentience, at its most basic, is the capacity and tendency for awareness of stimuli. It is a capacity that is not necessarily restricted to humans.

 

[Space_Chief]

Interesting, that the Soviet Union tried to perform experiments where they looked for volunteer women to mate with the great apes in the hope of producing hybrid offspring. Read the "The Ivanov experiments" on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee

 

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Then by that definition Martians would be humans too?

What Martians, links please I would like to meet them and see for myself.

Maybe the distinction will be Martians versus Earthlings instead of something else.

 

[Seriously]

Interesting, that the Soviet Union tried to perform experiments where they looked for volunteer women to mate with the great apes in the hope of producing hybrid offspring. Read the "The Ivanov experiments" on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee

hypothetical

 

[thestaggy]

Interesting, that the Soviet Union tried to perform experiments where they looked for volunteer women to mate with the great apes in the hope of producing hybrid offspring. Read the "The Ivanov experiments" on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee

I watched a documentary about this. They envisaged an army of ape men, stronger and more fearless than a human soldier.

 

[Zewp]

What Martians, links please I would like to meet them and see for myself.

Maybe the distinction will be Martians versus Earthlings instead of something else.

We're talking hypothetically...

You're not the sharpest pencil in the case, are you?