Would they be as fast as our species? I'm thinking they might be better in the sprints. There may be a middle distance where we could compete. They would need to have their own world & national records.
Pro football would be a lot more competitive.
Would they be as fast as our species? I'm thinking they might be better in the sprints. There may be a middle distance where we could compete. They would need to have their own world & national records.
Pro football would be a lot more competitive.
The Neanderthals are still around. They play in the NFL.
I think we would be faster over long distances for sure... THOUGH neanderthals had a really do or die mentality so they might be able to go ballz to the wall until they truly collapsed. That would make the 10k fairly competitive with the homo sapiens.
SisterAx wrote:
I think we would be faster over long distances for sure... THOUGH neanderthals had a really do or die mentality so they might be able to go ballz to the wall until they truly collapsed. That would make the 10k fairly competitive with the homo sapiens.
So how exactly do you know the ability of neanderthals to go "ballz to the wall?" Did you just finish reading Clan of the Cave Bear or something?
They would simply smash their competitor's skulls in. Regardless of the time, they would be the winner.
They were from Europe so probably were slow
asdfasdf wrote:
SisterAx wrote:I think we would be faster over long distances for sure... THOUGH neanderthals had a really do or die mentality so they might be able to go ballz to the wall until they truly collapsed. That would make the 10k fairly competitive with the homo sapiens.
So how exactly do you know the ability of neanderthals to go "ballz to the wall?" Did you just finish reading Clan of the Cave Bear or something?
Smaller brain size.
need i say more
Given that Europeans have a small percentage of Neanderthal genes and Africans don't have any, I'd have to say that they're pretty slow.
SisterAx wrote:
asdfasdf wrote:So how exactly do you know the ability of neanderthals to go "ballz to the wall?" Did you just finish reading Clan of the Cave Bear or something?
Smaller brain size.
need i say more
EErr. Wrong. Try again. Neanderthals brains were in fact bigger yet, narrower.
They would totally be heel strikers, thus they would be very inefficient and slow.
They wouldn't be very fast. They had much lower surface area to volume ratios as an adaptation to their cold environment, ie they were thick and muscular with short limbs relative to us. They were significantly physically stronger than us, but they were not very good runners.
There's still a Neanderthal roaming the earth. His name is Nick and he runs under 1:43 for 800 meters. He's very fast, and he likes to get drunk with famous sluts.
No, actually they are Obama voters and now they are getting the "benefits" from the Thug-In-Chief.
Second Theory wrote:
Would they be as fast as our species? I'm thinking they might be better in the sprints. There may be a middle distance where we could compete. They would need to have their own world & national records.
Pro football would be a lot more competitive.
LetsRun is visited mostly by neanderthals, several of them quite fast.
Rocky Balboa wrote:
There's still a Neanderthal roaming the earth. His name is Nick and he runs under 1:43 for 800 meters. He's very fast, and he likes to get drunk with famous sluts.
Issues, much?
They didn't have atlatl's or good throwing spears, meaning they had to get close to their prey. So odds are they would have been pretty quick over short distance. Being short and stocky is an advantage there.