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Neanderthal man speaks after 30,000 years
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4-16-2008 12:35 PM
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4-16-2008
1:46 PM
alanocu
this is really cool!
4-18-2008
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carrerinyes
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/da607421-101f-4594-8faa-cd5fda445d23/1648FB86-BAED-427D-8BA5-0BDA1F315FD6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/16/neanderthal.sound/index.html?eref=rss_latest" href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/16/neanderthal.sound/index.html?eref=rss_latest" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cnn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/16/neanderthal.sound/index.html?eref=rss_latest"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cnn.com/img/A7DF9232-A312-47CE-92DA-30059980368B" alt="art.neander.speak.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/16/neanderthal.sound/index.html?eref=rss_latest">It's been 30,000 years since Neanderthals walked the earth but now we can hear what they sounded like</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/16/neanderthal.sound/index.html?eref=rss_latest"><P> Robert McCarthy of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton reconstructed Neanderthal vocal tracts to simulate their voice with a computer synthesizer.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/16/neanderthal.sound/index.html?eref=rss_latest"> The result is a single syllable which sounds strange and unremarkable -- part croaking frog, part burping human</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/04/16/neanderthal.sound/index.html?eref=rss_latest"> "They would have spoken a bit differently," McCarthy told the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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