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Why is a neanderthal not human?

If the Neanderthal Man would exist today, would it have the same "human rights" as Homo Sapiens Sapiens?

  • In HOMO Genus, there are several classified species today extincted, like the Homo Neanderthalensis or Neanderthal Man, Homo Erectus and others, which are NOT classified like monkeys or apes but like humans or hominids. Lets supose that in any way, in a remote place in the world someone discovers that one of these species survived, and still exist today. Does they have the same Human Rights as us (Homo Sapiens Sapiens)? Are the Human Rights only for Homo Sapiens Sapiens? If not, will they be treated as animals, with the same rights? Why they will be treated like animals and not humans no matter of their HOMO Genus? Thanks in advance.

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    Interesting question. If we go back just 50 years ago - then definately not. Inequality due to skin colour was rife in many countries - in particular the USA until the 1960s.... (We are not that much better in England). However, although not perfect, things have greatly improved. So if we took so long to accept that people should be treated as equals irrespective of their skin colour - then Im sure it would have taken a lot longer for Neanderthal man to be given the same rights. I bet they would be our slaves / treated like animals. Mind you we treat some animals better than other human beings sometimes... They would also have been used for experimentation - to test new drugs etc.

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A lot of Americans have Neanderthal-type mentalities, so I would say,yes, they would have the same rights under the US Constitution.

kwb1965

HOMO means similar or identical thus all the species under the Homo Genus are alike therefore I conclude that the Homo Neanderthals should have the same constitution as the Sapiens.

lanisoderberg69

Probably not. Gays don't have the same rights. Women don't have the same rights....Immigrants don't have the same rights....

I think that as long as they were able to speak a language that we Homo Sapiens could learn, they would have the same rights. I think it would be very difficult for someone to make an argument in today's society that someone who could speak in a way that we understand as a language should be treated like a chimpanzee. So many people see spoken language as the thing that divides humans from all other animals. I know there are a few apes that have learned a form of sign language, but always very limited, and since the majority of us communicate through spoken languages, I feel that we as a species are biased and see spoken language as somehow evolutionarily "higher up" than gestures.

magpie_queen

cologniense? jojo eres mas chilango que la perra gorda madre que te pario desgraciado

Mongoloide

We don't even treat our own species equally why would we treat them as equals. I think they would poked and proded and tested to see if their inlligence was as much and we can't give them rights until we find out, blah blah blah. However, there is scientific evidence that some of those were more apelike. Neaderthal, maybe not so much. I think ti would depend on what species we actually found. Very interesting questin though.

fifimsp1

They would be treated as highly intelligent animals; therefore up for exploitation and experiment. I dont think we are evolved enough to look at them as humans-maybe humanlike, but definitely not human. Scientists and anthroplogists may regard them as human because of their background, but the average Joe would have adifficult time accepting them as human. Think about it...the government does not consider an unborn human as fully human therfore they can be aborted. Cruel but true.

disco

First off, Neanderthals are known to have the same brain capacity as us so they could be just as smart. Unless they had an advance language and society they wouldn't be treated as equals because, as someone stated before, the human race is cruel and we hardly treat people who are close to us with rights.

minusblade

I think they would based on the fact that they lived very much like "modern humans".

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