Neanderthals Pre-Flood, So Not Ice Age ...

The greatest argument against this position of mine is, they were so adapted to cold.

Now, this theory, implied in the Uniformitarian view of the Ice Age and of the dates of Neanderthal skeleta, has involved speculation about the nasal cavities.

And this time, we have news that contradicts it.

Live Science: 'Perfectly preserved' Neanderthal skull bones suggest their noses didn't evolve to warm air
Kristina Killgrove | 17.XI.2025
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/perfectly-preserved-neanderthal-skull-bones-suggest-their-noses-didnt-evolve-to-warm-air

One theory for Neanderthals' large noses is that they had equally large sinuses and an enhanced airway that evolved as adaptations to living in cold, dry environments. Their particular nasal anatomy may have been useful for warming and humidifying the air before it reached their lungs. But all previous studies of Neanderthal nasal anatomy were based on approximations of the delicate bones in the nose cavity, since these bones — the ethmoid, vomer and inferior nasal conchae — were broken or missing in every Neanderthal skull ever found.

However, they weren't missing in the Altamura man, so, one could check. And that particular theory doesn't work. Those bones are just like in modern men.

The facts are not incompatible with a cold climate, but the most specific adaptation, that of the nose, is lacking to show up the way the theory predicted. So, while Evolutionary anthropologists do have their view on how it still fits their overall narrative ...

Rather than viewing the Neanderthal nose as a unique adaptation to cold weather, it is better to understand it as an efficient way to change the temperature and humidity of the inhaled air required to run Neanderthals' massive bodies. Numerous environmental pressures and physical constraints likely helped shape the Neanderthal face, Buzi said, "resulting in a model alternative to ours, yet perfectly functional for the harsh climate of the European Late Pleistocene."

... we have one less proof. Rae noted that Northern European and Arctic members of the current post-Flood humanity, all of which is classified as "Homo sapiens" (that being his choice of words) both lack broad noses. So, the non-broad nose of Neanderthals could have been an adaption, not to the locally Arctic conditions of the Ice Age, in the early post-Flood world, but to pre-Flood conditions not unlike Northern Europe./HGL