Grunt work: Scientists make Neanderthals speak again – Yahoo! News FYI.
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The work, led by Robert McCarthy, an anthropologist at Florida Atlantic University at Boca Raton, is based on Neanderthal fossils found in France, the British journal said on its website on Wednesday.
The item includes an audio snippet in which a computer synthesiser replicates how a Neanderthal would say an “e” and compares this with the same sound as made by modern humans.
For an example of what a Neanderthal sounds like click here.
Found by Roger Strukhof.
Ouuuuchhh!
:rolls eyes:
Ugh! I’ve been W-rolled!
I bet they sounded *a lot* like ABBA…
Actually the article is quite interesting.
Hilarious!
He gets paid for this c##p. With teachers like this no wounder kids can’t think, read, write and do math. A new generation of frauds and money suckers will evolve from his work.
Few decades ago there have been a similar hoax, claiming that they could reconstruct voice of long dead people from their remains and/or even just pictures. Turned out to be just a sped-up or -down tape of some generic recording… Hence, I find this hard to believe or confirm (nowadays chance for simple computer manipulation makes this hoax trivial).
They already taught Neanderthals to speak.
It’s called “Ebonics.”
Very funny, Mr. Snoid! (with apologies to R. Crumb)
I’d bet it’s a cicada, not a Neanderthal…