How similar were the Neanderthals to today’s Rh Negatives?

In the past few months I have been examining the Neanderthal theory claiming that the rh negative blood factor (or rather the 0 negative blood type in itself) has originated from the Neanderthals who wound up crossbreeding with other hominoid species who were likely rh positive.

Even though there is only one article claiming that Neanderthals were the “universal donor”, there are plenty of indicators which have led me to pay more attention to this theory than any other when it comes to the origin of the rh negative blood factor:

1) The freckles and the red hair. One look at the profile pictures from my group members and you will know exactly what I am referring to.

2) The headshape. I have always wondered what it was that made our headshape so different (examined in a previous post, please search this site).

3) The larger cranial capacity compared to all hominoid species including homo sapiens would clearly align with the reports that rh negatives are generally speaking 30 points higher than the average human being when it comes to results from IQ tests taken.

4) Neanderthal remains have been found in regions where today’s percentage of rh negatives seems to be the highest, expect in parts of the British Isles and the Atlas region where the people with the highest percentage of rh negative blood are located: The Berbers, who however seem to consider themselves the descendants of the ancient Egyptians according to reports I have received.

The following article is interesting to me since it examines a few other similarities I have not heard of before:

higher incidence of left-handedness

According to polls conducted in my own group, this is the case. But as quite often, I cannot detect proof of this being a Neanderthal trait in the author’s writings.

shorter average height

Now that would apply to the Neanderthals even though they have been compared to the Nephilims who however would have been giants if you were to believe the Book of Enoch.

I have usually believed rh negative people to be slightly taller than average but I could have been mistaken.

greater incidence of big toe being shorter than the other toes

Apparently this is quite common amongst members of my group.

ess male pattern baldness (it’s a fact that left-handed men almost never go bald)

Wait! I am looking through the membership list of my FB page here:

http://www.facebook.com/browse/page_fans/?page_id=147836675235563

And as usual finding men is not easy as women are more likely to know when they are rh negative. I do however have to add that I believe my grandpa was rh negative. I am A-, so is my mom and her father was a typical out of the box thinker, visionary talking about her experiencing a Skype-like invention within her lifetime and who hated the herd mentality of the Germans.

At the age of his early death at 67 he was not missing any hair. Neither do I at age 42 have even the slightest signs of balding.

About the left handed people in generally never balding … I have just visited a Facebook friend’s profile who I remember being a lefty and he seems to be balding a little. But as you will be reading below, some of the author’s beliefs seem to have been debunked. Still interesting though.

better night vision

I know I do. How about you?

more short-sightedness

I can view things cleared from the far distance than anyone that I know in person. Or rather than anyone who has so many times mentioned “I cannot read it” when it seemed to be no problem for me.

more vegetarianism

Sorry, I like meat.

more sexual activity and promiscuity

Let’s rename this to “higher sex drive” and I agree. Sexual activity and promiscuity are often overwritten by personal choices not to follow those urges blindly. Even though I know a few rh negatives to whom this alleged tendency most definitely applies.

more lesbianism, homosexuality and pædophilia

Isn’t lesbianism homosexuality? Anyways, according to a few studies also presented on this blog, this could easily be the case. About pedophilia: Feel free to provide me proof. Otherwise I would like to disregard this part.

greater incidence of the pyknic body type

Just like with the headshape, I have seen this tendency in many rh negatives. But not in all. I don’t have it.

greater incidence of the recessive chin and sloping forehead

Sorry, but not sure.

more time spent dreaming when asleep

According to personal reports from other rh negatives, I can most definitely see this.

But how do we know what and how much of it the Neanderthals have dreamt?

a larger cerebellum

That would align with cranial capacity.

According to Stan Gooch, the roots of human conflict (and political disagreement) can be traced back to mankind’s dual ancestry and divided brain.

Stan Gooch (born 1932 in Lewisham, London, died 13 September 2010) was a British psychologist and author who is probably best known as the proponent of a “hybrid-origin theory” of human evolution.

In various chapters of Total Man Gooch outlined what would become the basis of his theories when he showed that phenomena can be divided into two columns, which he titled System A and System B, later asssociated with Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal lineage, respectively. These could be roughly equated to Freud’s Ego and Id, and in some ways Carl Jung’s Male and Female principles.

Hybrid-origin theory

Total Man was followed by Personality and Evolution (1973) and The Neanderthal Question (1977). In these books, Gooch develops what would become known as the “hybrid-origin theory”. The theory as represented in Guardians of the Ancient Wisdom (1979) can be outlined as follows:

1. From other human species, Cro-Magnon man evolves in Northern India during a long period of isolation, develops and practices sun worship and hunting magic; the culture is patriarchal.
2. Elsewhere during the same period, different forms of Neanderthal man evolve in Europe and the Middle East, while moon worship and earth magic is developed and practiced; the culture is matriarchal.
3. Around 35,000 years ago, Cro-Magnon abandons India and heads west through the Middle East into Europe, overrunning Neanderthal. By 25,000 years ago, the predominant type in Europe is Cro-Magnon.
4. In the Middle East a hybrid population, a cross between the Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal types, emerges. Pure Neanderthal has largely ceased to exist either here or in Europe.
5. By 15,000 years ago, pure Cro-Magnon man has also ceased to exist, driven out of north and west Europe, into southern Europe, by renewed glaciation, absorbed by the hybrid type (that is, modern Homo sapiens).

Gooch continued to develop the theory during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s in Cities of Dreams (1989, 1995), and The Neanderthal Legacy (2008).

But some scientists came together to later try to discredit him on a personal level:

In his later years Stan Gooch lived “virtually destitute” in “a rented caravan in a nearly abandoned Welsh trailer park – with neither telephone nor computer, his correspondence inked on the backs of galley proofs, and scarce personal contact – wholly lacking family, right at life’s raw edge.”

This may have been the case, but I tend to be careful when someone tries to destroy a person’s theory based on the way they have lived their lives. Just look at Tesla who according to his lifestyle could have easily been called a weirdo. While looking back he appears to be more and more of a genius who once was more or less forgotten.

So without any further ado, here is the whole article which you should please make up your own mind over:

Before he passed away in 2010, maverick psychologist Stan Gooch sent us one of his final articles, which we’re pleased to publish for the first time. Labour voters in particular may not enjoy what follows…

There are two reasons why humanity is so deeply divided into permanently opposed and constantly conflicting groups with very different views on life and its meaning. The first of these reasons is that we are hybrids, a cross between two very different species: Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon. I made this claim many, many years ago in my early books; it was, however, always totally denied by the scientific establishment. But recent fossil finds in Portugal and elsewhere have now forced the establishment to agree that Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon did interbreed.

There are two major consequences when widely separated species are interbred, as we know from professional animal breeders. One of these consequences is that the new hybrid species possesses totally new abilities shown by neither parent. So Darwin got it completely wrong when he said natura non facit saltum. Evolution does proceed by sudden and dramatic leaps.

And this is why in Europe some 30,000–40,000 years ago, when Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon met up and interbred, we had a sudden explosion of new tools, the sudden emergence from nowhere – in other words, with no gradual historical development – of detailed cave paintings, and so on. Modern civilisation begins suddenly at this point. Prior to this time, neither Neanderthal nor Cro-Magnon tools had shown any advances or changes for tens upon tens of thousands of years. Both species had been completely static.

But aside from this positive aspect, there is another equally important one. The offspring of crossbreeding between two widely separated species often display two sets of opposing instincts, with which the offspring struggles (often in vain) to come to terms.

An actual example: the peach-faced lovebird carries its nesting material in its beak.

Fischer’s Lovebird carries its nesting material tucked into its rump feathers. The crossbred offspring of these two different species, when it reaches the point of wanting to build a nest, holds the nesting material in its beak and gets ready to fly.

But then its Fischer instinct says, hang on, you’re supposed to have the material tucked into your rump feathers. The bird now tucks the material into its rump and gets ready to fly; at which point the peach-faced instinct says, no, the material is supposed to be in your beak. Once again the bird takes the material into its beak and gets ready to fly. But again the other instinct says, no. Again and again and again the hybrid offspring changes the location of the nest materials, but all in vain. It struggles to reach a final decision, but cannot.

Does this remind us of anyone?

The reason why modern humanity has two opposing political views – left-wing against right-wing – is certainly due to our dual ancestry. But nobody ever asks why we as humans should have two such dramatically and diametrically opposed sets of political views. For, surely, if elephants evolved into intelligent beings there would be just one party – the elephant party. All elephants would agree on how their society should run. Why are humans different?

Let’s now take a look at some of my detailed claims on the nature of Neanderthal society. I say that Neanderthal society was matriarchal, nocturnal, worshipped the Moon, and practised totally promiscuous sex (with no pair-bonding whatsoever) including lesbianism, homosexuality and pædophilia. Now guess what? The recently discovered bonobo chimpanzees are led by the females and practise totally promiscuous sex (with no pair-bonding), including lesbianism, homosexuality and pædophilia. I also claimed that Neanderthals were left-handed, were gatherers rather than hunters (and, in fact, mainly vegetarian). My claim that left-handedness would be more common among lesbians, homosexuals and pædophiles has also now been verified statistically. And we also know that Neanderthals were short in height, were barrel-bodied (the pyknic type), had a big toe shorter than the second toe, a recessive forehead and chin, a jutting mouth and so on.

Now if my claims are correct, then politically left-wing movements are expressions of our Neanderthal instincts, and members of the Labour Party when compared with members of the Conservative party would show (and this is not a complete list):

(a) higher incidence of left-handedness
(b) shorter average height
(c) greater incidence of big toe being shorter than the other toes
(d) less male pattern baldness (it’s a fact that left-handed men almost never go bald)
(e) better night vision
(f) more short-sightedness
(g) more vegetarianism
(h) more sexual activity and promiscuity
(i) more lesbianism, homosexuality and pædophilia
(j) greater incidence of the pyknic body type
(k) greater incidence of the recessive chin and sloping forehead
(l) more time spent dreaming when asleep
(m) a larger cerebellum (see below)

Actually, there already exists tangential evidence for some of these claims. For example, left-handedness among Arts graduates is 15 per cent, among Science graduates only four per cent, and arts graduates tend to be more left-wing in their views. More specifically still, all Welsh members of the London Parliament are Labour, and the dominant party in the Welsh Assembly is Labour. And Wales just happens to have double the left-handedness found in England. Also left-handedness among Chinese is double that found in Europe; and China just happens to be a Communist state! (Also, take a look at Chinese chins and foreheads).

Again, most working-class people in Britain would tend to vote Labour, while most of the upper classes would vote Tory. And, of course, working class individuals are on average shorter in height than upper-class individuals (the Welsh are also on average shorter than the English; the Chinese are on average shorter than Europeans).

We come now to the second reason why humanity is so deeply divided. This is because we have two brains: the cerebrum (the front brain) and the cerebellum (the back brain). The ancestor of all mammals had two pairs of eyes – one pair on top of the head and connected to the cerebellum. The second pair was in the front of the head and connected to the cerebrum. Originally, the cerebellum was the main brain. But in the course of time the pair of eyes on top of the head fused together and sank down into the skull to form what is today called the pineal gland, which is still actually light sensitive (of course the pineal gland is the ‘third eye’ of ancient Hindu mysticism). Now the cerebrum and its pair of front eyes became the main brain. But when did you ever hear these astonishing evolutionary facts discussed?

The cerebellum appears today to be much smaller than the cerebrum. But in fact, due to its deeply convoluted structure, the surface area – that’s the cortex – of the cerebellum is almost equal to that of the apparently larger cerebrum. Moreover, the cerebellum makes more inner inter-cell connections than the cerebrum – it is more complex. And also, the cerebellum has full access to all the information contained in the cerebrum.

The cerebellum is the source of dreaming. It is also, I claim, the source of neurotic conditions such as multiple personality disorder and the source of all psychic phenomena, such as the ability to foresee the future or access the lost past. It is the source of the ability of an individual, in trance, to produce complex and serious wounds in the body in the space of a few minutes (a process which has been recorded on camera, and is gradually being admitted to and discussed by scientists). It is the source of poltergeist phenomena, the ability to cause objects to move without actually being touched. It is the source of ‘spirits’, the other personalities which speak through a medium in trance.

The cerebellum is also the source of automatic writing. Some people write two complex messages/narratives using both hands simultaneously while, for instance, reading aloud from a newspaper at the same time. Sometimes the words and sentences are written backwards and as mirror images! This is the work of the so-called ‘unconscious’ – our alternative consciousness.

I have reported on all these matters in detail in my various books. And, just in case you think dreaming in unimportant, several scientists have made major advances by seeing them in dreams. The cerebellum is also the source of religious beliefs. Religion is effectively a form of dreaming. (This is why there are so many different religions and sub-religions, but only one science, one chemistry, one mathematics and so on).

Other major relevant points: Neanderthal had a much larger cerebellum than Cro-Magnon; women have a larger cerebellum than men. And this is why more women are psychic mediums than men (and in fact better psychic mediums than men). Women also hypnotise more readily than men, and so on. Hypnosis is of course another cerebellar manifestation.

Yet – despite all of the foregoing – guess what? The cerebellum is almost totally excluded from the physiological textbooks used in our universities. That’s physiological psychology, never mind ordinary psychology textbooks. I did a survey of physiological psychology textbooks used in universities some years ago. The ‘winner’ – the one with most mentions of the cerebellum – had only 15 pages out of a total of 750 devoted to the subject.

One last point. It’s possible that a strong/dominant cerebellum is actually responsible for left-handedness. A right-handed person who has either the right or the left cerebral hemisphere removed for medical reasons nevertheless remains right-handed.

A left-handed person who has either of the cerebral hemispheres removed nevertheless remains left-handed. So, the cerebrum has nothing to with handedness.

Furthermore, connections from the right cerebral hemisphere go to the left cerebellar hemisphere. And connections from the left cerebral hemisphere go to the right cerebellar hemisphere. So the cerebellum is reverse handed – left-handed, vis-a-vis the cerebrum, just like our own mirror image.

So each of us is really two people – the cerebral person and the cerebellar person. The majority of us opt for one and exclude the other. And so science denies religion, while religion excludes science, left fights right, and so on. So the cerebrum/cerebellum relationship is the second source of human division and conflict, in addition to our dual Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon ancestry with its two sets of instincts. With these two major sources of human conflict, it’s something of a miracle that humanity – fond though it is of mass slaughter – has survived at all.

And the situation seems to be getting worse rather than better. We urgently need to face up to our duality – to our double duality in fact – and take both sides of our personalities on board, on their own terms.

We appreciate that the highly speculative and ‘challenging’ nature of Stan Gooch’s ideas usually elicits a robust response from readers; but before putting pen to paper, please refer to “Sinister rejoinders (FT202:73) for objections already raised to Stan’s letter in FT199 on the subject of Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon hybrids, left-handedness and the origin of the terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ in political discourse.