Neanderthals used antibiotics 50,000 years before modern humans did

[TylerDurden]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4294026/Neanderthals-discovered-aspirin-40-000-years-ago.html#newcomment

Yet more evidence that Neanderthals were more intelligent than humans. In the 1980s, it was already apparent that Neanderthals had at least the same level of technological/cultural innovation as Cro-Magnon-era  humans. But, increasingly, the dates are being pushed back, and we now find that the Neanderthals discovered all sorts of innovations long before the advent of early modern humans.

[Iguana]

What if they did it instinctively? Some molds taste good when you need them.

I don't mean they were not intelligent, but that you don't need intelligence to eat what you need.

[HelpMeToHelpEwe]

Neat article Ty. I suspect they will continue to push the timeline back until people pull their heads out of their bums. Everything significant on this planet is way the hell older than the schlubs pretending to be scientists and scholars.

In reference to Iguana's comment: Besides, anyone who has ever eaten a raw, green plant has "used" antibiotics... People make too much out of things. For many issues that arise out of attempts to subvert natural law, it isn't a matter of which plant getting into your system, it is rather that you consume some plant, not overtly toxic, which will offer many, many, bio-compounds your system can use to transform or synthesize the specific substances it needs to remediate the issue, this extends to molds/fungi/yeasts as well.

[goodsamaritan]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4294026/Neanderthals-discovered-aspirin-40-000-years-ago.html#newcomment

Yet more evidence that Neanderthals were more intelligent than humans. In the 1980s, it was already apparent that Neanderthals had at least the same level of technological/cultural innovation as Cro-Magnon-era  humans. But, increasingly, the dates are being pushed back, and we now find that the Neanderthals discovered all sorts of innovations long before the advent of early modern humans.

Yet more evidence about humans more ancient than thought.
They are looking at CIVILIZED people known as Neanderthals.