I'm excited- I do have some vested belief of therianthropy having at least some genetic influence, and the more anthropologists determine about the interbreeding of Neandrathals with early hominids, and the more geneticists discern about the impact of those 'non-human' genes on our evolution, the more potential I see for possibly understanding at least some aspect of therianthropy. It's interesting, but there is a theory that, despite the amazing immune systems attributed with Neandrathals, some scientists believe that there is some possible link to auto-immune diseases being a product of dominant Neandrathals genes conflicting with certain human genetic and internal processes. I'll post a link if I can find it.

That is very interesting.

Aye. There was also autoimmune diseases, bilateral asymmetries, shovel teeth. and, possibly, some mild structural differences. Many Therians seem to have a slight Neanderthalish brow ridge - nothing too obvious but, if you notice on a normal human skull, there's no brow ridge above the nose at all.

Also, the Serbs call themselves Sons of the Wolf and believed they were descended from a monstrous black wolf called Dabog, Dazbog, or Svarog. The myth of Prince Vseslav, the Russian Werewolf hero is tied up with him. In our original standing as "Dogs of God" the god mentioned was Dabog and it was only after our entry into European society that we became associated with the Christian God.

When I started to college (1973), I had a huge research library (at the time, the largest in the US) at my disposal. I've been studying therianthropy ever since. My chief regret is that I didn't reference my studies in the early years. I had no reason to believe that there were other Werewolves (much less other Weres) and so i was studying for myself only. When I found the Were community in 1999, I realized my error and started being more responsible in my studies so I have a lot of catching up to do. I have a website where I post my studies if you want to see it. It should be posted in my profile.

I tried going to the site and it says the site doesn't exist.

Here's a link to the Therian Timeline:

http://theriantimeline.com/

I have a friend with Crones in the Community. Another, a vegetarian, just went vegan because she found that she is allergic to  milk and eggs.

Thanks, Wolf! I should restart my account on werelist too... Hasn't been updated since 2009

Allergies and lactose/gluten intolerances run in my immediate family too; but I only have the former (thus far; tends to be something we develop later in life).

From what I hear shovel teeth are primarily a Native American characteristic so I wouldn't expect to see that in many European therians - I certainly don't have it.

That's true- but it is interesting that such a frequency of multiple traits are consistent in therians. You guys are probably aware of far more than I am, but certain traits do appear to have a tendency to be dominant more frequently within therians. I didn't know you had allergies too, Shady. But I agree- the majority of my allergies developed as I got older- not the other way around where I grew out of them. I wonder the predominance of gluten/lactose intolerance in other therians? I have read that gluten has an adverse effect on canines and felines (they are essentially celiac) and that's why there's a movement to remove gluten from commercial pet food. Not to suggest there's a direct correlation, but there are other species that are inherently celiac. I don't personally know too much about Neandrathals, but some studies have suggested those with dominant Neandrathal genes tend to relate to immune deficiencies or diseases- something about those genes not quite matching human genes. I've also read that Neandrathals constitute 3-4% of the human genome in Europeans (not to say these are dominant), while Donisovans make up 3-4% of Malasian populations.

And I think they found out through DNA that Neanderthals had reddish hair.  But not sure if that's just one of them or the whole race?



Siverwolf.

I've never thought about werewolf in terms of Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon... But I would think of it the other way around, wouldn't a werewolf be the NEXT step in human evolution, and not the remnants of a species past?

Think about it this way. Neanderthals died out of some mysterious cause. (What was between Neandertahl and Cromagnon) That is the missing link, but we have no idea. According to record the Neanderthals ran "the world", then one day the cromagnons were just THERE, and Neanderthals started dying and were eventually wiped out and replaced completely by Cro-Magnons.

Now, think about this. Wouldn't this make the Cromagnons the more "Werewolf" species? Sure they are "less hairy", but they were BETTER, SMARTER pack animals.

If anything, wouldn't something that we consider "Half wolf, Half human" be the NEXT step, and not a step back? The "Apex Predator".

Also, if you look into Greek Culture at "Pan", he is a hairy half man half beast who loves the moon, the wilderness, and is the alpha of the "faun". Therianthropy may just be the "wilderness" within humans, and not necessarily anything genetic.

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We can't be sure Neanderthals are still in our blood, what if cromagnons came from aliens, and killed all the Neanderthals? Just because there is a widespread theory doesn't mean the genes still exist. Correct me if I'm wrong though.

Wolves aren't apex predators, but a werewolf sure as hell would be. That's better than a bear.