There's one thing that keeps bugging me about every depiction of a Neanderthal.<p>The thing started bugging me after I had been watching a Neanderthal special on TV, for almost an hour it went on and on about how cold adapted they were.<p>A huge list of cold adaptations due to 200,000 years of living in an ice aged Europe.<p>Then modern man comes on the scene, fresh out of Africa.
And what do you know, the newly arrived African is snow white and blue eyed, facing a brown haired, brown eyed, Neanderthal.<p>That's when the light bulb went on over my European blue eyed head, this is bullshit.<p>The Neanderthal in the linked article has brownish red heir and brownish green eyes, and so is the by far the fairest depiction I've ever seen.