What I'm wondering is what would the Neandertal have to do wish Aspergers?
I picked this because it is a widely accepted theory that neandertals and neanderthals possibly interbred with modern humans. Neandertal and neanderthals originated in Europe where as modern humans originated in Africa. A genetic comparison for modern humans compared with the mostly complete genomes of the neandertals and neanderthals reveals that those of pure African decent have no genes that cross over. It is also theorised that red hair, as I've said before, comes from these populations rather than an african population and that white skin is also along those lines because there is less sunlight in Europe compared with Africa. Some modern evidence is that when modern humans encountered the neandertals and neanderthals populations they interbred rather than one killing the other.
Some European people have been shown to have large amounts of their genome that comes possibly from these ancient populations. Language was also though to have come from Neandertals because neandertals were hunters rather than scavengers like modern humans were. Neandertals would hunt food such as horses, ox or mammoths where as modern humans would roam vast distances in search of food on the African savannah. This means that modern human didn't really need a language to communicate complex ideas but neandertals did. So one of the current theories, which has some evidence from recovering ancient genomes of Neandertals, suggests that modern humans actually acquired language from interbreeding with other ancient human populations.
So I have wondered if Asperger's is perhaps the genetic expression of how Neandertals communicated. Hence why we have trouble communicating in a NT world. NT communication is the modern human form of communication and Aspergers is the Neandertal or ancient human communication techniques. This would make sense as we aspies seem to be more geared up for this technological world than our NT counter parts. If we think about what would be required for a hunt, the said humans would have to very good at spacial awareness in order to communicate how to move though environments relative to the others on a hunt, there would be a need for careful and precise communication, there would be a need for a fair amount of fore thought and there would also be the need for said humans to be able to think about scenarios in their heads to figure out how best to achieve a common goal. I think we aspies can probably tick off a lot of these items. I'm also going to throw in that we aspies seem better able to communicate with each other than with NTs so it would another possible piece of evidence that our genetic expressions were more about us as a sub race (or what ever) communicating with each other than with NTs.
If you take the above and apply it to an NT, most NTs would actually struggle with most of those conditions for a hunt. Not as a result of the modern world but because I think their brains aren't really wired that way. They are happier to scavenge their way through life than to plan it out.
I know I'm making some big generalizations here, but I think it a way it makes sense. However I do see weight in the argument that perhaps we are the next evolution. We are vastly more prepared for this world than a lot of NTs. However I think our limiting factor will be that for a lot of us being able to pass those genes on will be difficult. I don't mean that to be an insult to anyone, but we all know at the end of the day that finding a life partner to have kids with is probably a bit of luck more and many prayers to what ever god is out there than anything else. And definitely a bit harder for the guys than the girls as guys are expected to make the first move and expected to have something to offer a prospective mate.
Ultimately I think we as a human race will loose our genetic diversity mostly because those of us who should have been weeded out have not been due to medical science. I have watched so many medical programs about some poor kid that has been through so many medical procedures for years and years to keep them alive rather than letting them pass. I think we as a society are loosing what it means that sometimes things don't work out, that some times the genetics a child is born with are not meant to survive. These genes are supposed to be weeded out but now a lot of these children are being kept alive long enough to reproduce themselves. Then there are the ones who reproduce for a career choice rather than because they want to bring a child into this world to love and care for (I say this because in the town I currently live in this is actually what happens. For any girl raised in this town at present it is considered to be a miracle if she gets to age 20 without two children). If those of us who are educated and above average intelligence defer or not have children because of careers or choice or what have you does this mean we as a human race and breeding ourselves into an evolutionary dead end because only those who would normally not be able to breed are now being given every opportunity to breed? Or paid to breed?
I know I'm throwing some things out there that would be controversial but screw it I want to have a good intellectual debate where political correctness is irrelevant.
