The Paradox of
Neanderthals And Bigfoot
Is
Bigfoot More Human Than Neanderthals Were?
By
Dorraine Fisher -TCC Team Member
From
what I’ve read lately, it may be time to scrap most of our old beliefs about
human evolution and open our minds to MANY new ones. As rumors swirl of Bigfoot
being a primate that is more human than ape, new ideas develop about the human
story every day. But I found none more interesting than theater and film
director Danny Vendramini’s theories about Neanderthals that challenge some of
the greatest minds in the scientific and anthropological communities in their
traditional views of what Neanderthals must have looked like.
Vendramini
claims humans use anthropomorphism (the tendency to attribute human features to
other animals) as the reason science has “humanized” the appearance of
Neanderthals so much over the years. Neanderthals are usually depicted in
magazines and on TV as hairless like us, light skinned, and often fairly
attractive from a human perspective. They’re shown to look mostly like us
outside of a few prominent facial features such as flat, short foreheads and
heavy brow ridges.
But
Vendramini, in his book, Them and Us, in his background and working with movie
makeup artists, has taken a new look at neanderthal skulls from a more theatrical
point of view and has come to some interesting conclusions by using an
old-fashioned human super-power: imagination. And an open mind.
According
to Vendramini, science has no basis to believe that Neanderthals looked much
like humans at all. Neanderthals skulls have very large eye sockets, so they’re
eyes had to, he says, have been much larger than a humans, possibly for the
purpose of hunting in the dark of night. And like other primates, their eyes
may have been completely dark with no whites, since there is no evidence to
prove they had whites in their eyes. And he maintains we have no reason to
believe they had light, smooth skin like humans either. With only fossil
records to go by, we’re only assuming they had skin like ours.
And
Neanderthals are believed to have evolved in the colder northern climates of
Europe and Asia, so complete hair loss like that of humans, believed to have
evolved in the hot climate of Africa, would have been a huge mistake of
nature...which doesn’t generally happen. There’s a very good chance
Neanderthals were completely covered in hair just like any other primate except
humans. And when we look at a side view of a Neanderthal skull vs. a human
skull, we find the Neanderthal skull to look more like an ape than any human.
So their profile would have looked much different than ours.
So
when Vendramini revealed his version of what a Neanderthal likely looked like,
the picture was very different and, in my opinion, much more menacing than the
more humanized, National Geographic version. And I was shocked to see what
looked to me like a shorter, more fearsome relative of what Bigfoot is believed
to look like today. In fact, in photos of Bigfoot, I believe Bigfoot as we
understand him, appears much more human in that context than Vendramini’s
Neanderthal.
So
in light of new DNA evidence of a sister species that lived alongside
Neanderthals and humans tens of thousands of years ago, and all the
interbreeding between theses species’ that is now believed to have taken place, it only gives us another idea to ponder as we
wait for Dr. Ketchum’s DNA results. Is Bigfoot actually more human than
Neanderthals were? There are so many
questions that need to be answered here. And granted, Vendramini is NO man of
science, but his theories do make a lot of sense. And all we can do is
speculate anyway. ******
Here is Vendramini's Youtube video
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