News of the Week May 1

How Our Sleep Patterns Made Us Human

Ankylosaur Tail Evo

Sauropod-Like Ground Sloth?

Neanderthals Taught Us How to Join a Cult

Aquatic Ankylosaur

400-Million Year-Old Fish Discovered is Ancestor of Dinosaurs, Humans

Did Neanderthals Train Raptors?

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/eagle-talons-0011822

Dream Telepathy
https://consciousreminder.com/2018/01/09/dream-telepathy-studies-prove-humans-can-communicate-dreaming/?fbclid=IwAR1T7xvDK-byag0QilzYBs_Oy3JSIs4jYStdgGlLHWZzACHPHs7I3Ge5QMw

Early Baleen Whales
http://paleontologyworld.com/exploring-prehistoric-life-paleontologists-curiosities/earliest-%E2%80%98baleen-whales%E2%80%99-had-large-teeth-and?fbclid=IwAR29Kga6a9llOdnBVYX2hprIx5VUmp_Lf6z9KPJifCctJdei-6vF350GgB0

Neanderthals Could Kill From a Distance

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46988459

We are 1/25 Neanderthal
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2203647-cannabis-plant-evolved-super-high-on-the-tibetan-plateau/

News of the Week May 1

The Unnamed Bears Favor by J. Lyon Layden Fantasy Prehistoric Fiction

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The Unnamed Bears Favor by J. Lyon Layden Fantasy Prehistoric Fiction

The Unnamed Bears Favor is Now Live and in Book Stores!

At long last, my new Young Adult Speculative Fiction Novel is now live!

This is the first time I get to share with the public a type of Prehistoric Fiction as strange and alien to modern life as a work of Epic Fantasy or Sword and Sorcery, so I'm super excited about the release.

I've been studying for over 25 years (and waiting for a certain theories to be proven true) in order to start publishing this type of novel. 

Vindication for Fantasy Fans, Geneticists, and Paleontologists alike--our prehistoric world rivals the worlds of fantasy and science fiction!

In the 20th Century, man tried to prove myth with science. In the 21st Ceentury, science has proven myth whether man likes it or not...

The Unnamed Bears Favor
from Aurelio Leo Publishing
 by J. Lyon Layden 

"A horn grew from the woman's forehead--something like a rhino's, but much smaller and darker in hue."

Mythical China, 9000 B.C.E. A nameless outcast is summoned by the village priestess to undergo his initiation into the Rik-Sika, a band of hunter-assassins. To earn his place, he must travel with them to the ruins of his people's stronghold, which sits on a plateau near the roof of the world. On the perilous journey, he encounters restless ghosts, monstrous devil-bears, and the dreaded ogres who rule the mountains. Faced with unimaginable odds, the unnamed boy discovers his true name and with it, a powerful secret buried by his ancestors long ago. 

Armed with a dark and powerful knowledge but burdened by its weight, the boy must choose between his own life and the fate of the tribe.

It's $2.99 in ebook form, $9.99 in Paperback.
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The Unnamed Bears Favor is Now Live and in Book Stores!

Quora Question: Were the "bad" Pleistocene/Paleolithic humans strong and undefeatable to the Pleistocene/Paleolithic humans?

Were the "bad" Pleistocene/Paleolithic humans strong and undefeatable to the Pleistocene/Paleolithic humans?

Joseph Layden, Author of The Unnamed Bears Favor

Answered just now

Yes. Neanderthals and Denisovans were both much larger, stronger, and technically advanced than Paleolithic Homo Sapiens. They used chemistry, made art and jewelry, buried their dead, practiced spirituality, and domesticated canines long before we did. They even cold hammered gold beads 20,000 years before homo sapiens. They also had larger brains.

We seemed to have survived because we were the most fruitful, and seem to have been the one species that could successfully breed with all the others. There are no populations of homo sapiens living today who don’t have some kind of archaic presence in their DNA. That is because just like Neanderthals and Denisovans, pure homo sapiens went extinct.

We survivors are hybrids of at least 8 different species of homo. We`are also hybrids of several different subspecies of homo sapiens. From 300,000 to 150,000 years ago, many different populations of homo sapiens lived from East Africa to Northern India, but even many of those considered Anatomically Modern are as different from one another as we are from Neanderthals. None had chins, for instance.  Size and body proportions show much greater diversity between populations than today.

The great majority of our modern genome seems to have been assimilated by a wave of homo sapiens with a large amount of Neanderthal and what scientists call a "ghost" population of homo sapiens.

It's sort of a sister group, with various sub-populations such as Paleo East African, Paleo Siberian, etc.

The only people with no trace of Neanderthal seem to be a few populations in the inner deserts and rainforests of Africa. But they too have several types of archaic introgression, perhaps equating to a kind of subtropical Neanderthal.

However, they too show signs of sexual exchange with the aforementioned "ghost" population of homo sapiens. Their mitochondrial DNA shows up as an erroneous insertion on a chromosome 11 on some people of every population in the world.

The first analysis of the mitochondrial DNA of Australia's 60,000 year old Mungo Man happened to look like a descendant of this introgressed DNA strain.

Mungo Man may have been a woman, and stood 6'6.

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Quora Question: Were the "bad" Pleistocene/Paleolithic humans strong and undefeatable to the Pleistocene/Paleolithic humans?