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press releases
intro
Below are several press releases about Them and Us of varying lengths.
You can also download the most accurate forensic reconstruction images of a Neanderthal ever made to accompany your stories. There were personally supervised by Danny Vendramini and incorporate the latest archaeological and paleoforensic evidence.
Four images are available free on the gallery page. They can be downloaded as high resolution PDFs (for newspapers, magazines etc.) or lower resolution jpegs suitable for the Internet.
It is a condition of the use of these images that they contain a credit to: www.themandus.org
For media queries or to arrange an interview contact Nell OB'ryan, Kardoorair Press
0403 068 460 or email nell@nellobryan.com.au
Svante Pääbo
Lead author of the new study.
Neanderthal Genome study proves predation theory
A major new study of the Neanderthal genome published last week in the
prestigious journal, Science has provided dramatic evidence
supporting an Australian author's theory that Neanderthals hunted and
raped early humans.
'The Draft Sequence of the Neanderthal Genome' is one
of the largest genetics studies ever undertaken involving almost 60
authors and hundreds of technicians around the world. Among its
unexpected findings are that Neanderthal males mated with early humans
in the Middle East.
The study, led by Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany report the
interbreeding occurred between 100,000 to 60,000 years ago, before the
humans dispersed across the globe.
These findings were predicted in Australian evolutionary detective,
Danny Vendramini's 2009 book, Them and Us: how Neanderthal
predation created modern humans released last year.
At the time, Vendramini's theory that Neanderthals were 'apex
predators' who hunted, cannibalized and raped early humans in the
Middle East between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago was considered
controversial. Now that theory has been confirmed by the Draft
Neanderthal Sequence, which reveals that between 1- 4% of human genes
come from Neanderthals.
According to Vendramini, Neanderthals hunted our
ancestors for over 50,000 years and almost wiped them out. “The only
humans to survive were those born with modern traits like high
intelligence, creativity, aggression, language and guile.” He said.
“These fully modern Cro-Magnons turned the tables on their former
predators and eventually annihilated them.”
"They also killed most of the hybrids that had accumulated because they
considered them mutants.
He says that when the Cro-Magnons left the Middle East on their global migration, they inevitably took a few recessive Neanderthal genes with them.
Commenting on the Draft Neanderthal Genome Sequence today from his home in Sydney, Danny Vendramini said, "I'm absolutely delighted. The best proof for a new scientific theory is for its predictions to be confirmed by observation, and that's what's happened here. The Draft Sequence supports the view that the Middle East was the real cradle of humanity. Neanderthal predation of archaic humans is the only scenario that explains the Genome Sequence data."
media release 1
480 words + caption +
scientists' quotes
This short News Release gives a brief overview of Vendramini's perdition theory, describing the cannibalistic and sexual predation of early human by Eurasian Neanderthals.
It includes additional quotes from three world renown scientists discussing NP theory.
Contains contact info and book details.
media release one - 480 words +
scientist quotes + illustrations
www.themandus.org
Neanderthals were not the gentle, almost-human creatures portrayed in the media over the last 150 years. New Australian research reveals they were aggressive, powerful and terrifying carnivores—ruthless and efficient apex predators, who hunted, raped and ate early humans for over 50,000 years. The Neanderthal’s daily diet of nearly 2 kg of meat—the equivalent of 16 Quarter Pounders—included human flesh.
Based on the research, Australian independent scholar Danny Vendramini has developed “Neanderthal predation theory”, which argues that the evolution of modern humans— including our unique physiology, sexuality and human nature—is the result of a reaction to this systematic long-term sexual predation and cannibalism by Eurasian Neanderthals.
Download Press Release 1 as a PDF.
media release
2
600 words + caption
It's all about the beast.
News Release 2 looks at Neanderthals as 'apex predators and includes forensic reconstruction illustrations to show what they really looked like.
Contains contact info and book details.
media release two - 600 words +
illustrations
www.themandus.org
If you thought Neanderthals were simply hairier, dumber versions of modern humans, think again. Australian independent scholar Danny Vendramini has spent five years researching Neanderthals for a new book on human evolution and says they were vicious super-predators and cannibals who hunted our ancestors to the brink of extinction.
Vendramini believes the key to understanding human evolution is to understand Neanderthals because the two species co-existed together in the same region for 70,000 years...
Download Press Release 2 as a PDF.
900 words + caption
News release 3 provides an in-depth look at the impact of Neanderthal predation on human evolution. It quotes three world renown scientists discussing NP theory
Contains contact info and book details.
media release three - 900
words
+ illustrations
It is a condition of the use of these images that they contain a credit to:
www.themandus.org
70,000-year
war with Neanderthals created modern humans
Neanderthals were a race of super-predators that hunted early humans to the edge of extinction in the Middle East until, at one stage, there were only about 50 of our ancestors left. These resilient survivors evolved into modern humans and staged a fight-back that led to the extinction of the Neanderthals.
These are just some of the claims of a new theory of human evolution to be published next week by Australian author, Danny Vendramini. In his book Them and Us: how Neanderthal predation created modern humans, Vendramini suggests the protracted inter-species conflict that raged between Neanderthals and humans for over 70,000 years was responsible for transforming archaic humans into fully modern humans.
The author has spent five years researching the 50,000 year period that Neanderthal and early humans both occupied the Levant and says the evidence is overwhelming that Neanderthals were not docile hominids. “These forest-dwelling creatures were the most lethal of all the prehistoric predators. They hunted the largest and fiercest prey, including lions, mammoths, rhinos, cave bears – and humans...
Download Press Release 3 as a PDF.
