What Caused The Extinction Of The Neanderthals? | The Neanderthal in Us
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- The Neanderthals are the only other species of human to have inhabited planet earth. They went extinct around 40,000 years ago and the oldest Neanderthal bones found date back 430,000 years ago. This documentary explores what happened to this branch of the human family tree all those years ago and the genetic legacy that could still exist within us today.
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Making jewelry or decorating themselves, is art.
Yep.
Barely touches on their extinction. The title should change
Thank you. I hate clickbait.
Homo sapians are Said to have been Down to 10.000 during the last Iceage i heard going through a bottleneck event. We were close to extinction too. Marginales, luck, coincidence, skills maybe a mix of different factors made the difference and some neanderthals and denisovans Seem to have been part of the equation through mixing. It might have been small survieving groups spread out wide only meeting in rare occations for milleniums. Then later groups meet and mix futher and populations grow and evolve maybe even mixing has caursed the developementjumps through time both by learning from each other and the new mix in dna which might have triggered something also in our brain as Well as our bodies and immunesystem ect
Thank you. Dismissing
The oldest **Homo sapiens** remains discovered so far include fragments of skulls, jaws, teeth, and other fossils found at **Jebel Irhoud** in Morocco. These fossils date back **300,000 years**, making them the earliest known remains of our species. Quite remarkable, isn't it? 😊
Yes, I remember reading about Neanderthals being found in the Near East.
It was likely a combination of factors that took them out, not least being the eruption of a super volcano. But one thing I can say for certain - they weren't wearing designer leather pants like they are in this whacky video.
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This is all well and good, but this research dates back a few years now (it is dated 2010 at the end).
For one: the reason why we did not mix more is mathematical: there were 70 000 Neanderthals tops across Eurasia. There were slightly fewer Sapiens (about 3000 left Africa 80 000BC, and the population grew slowly). It is actually a miracle that they did stumble on each other. Of course, it can be argued that they were probably all looking for favourable sites, but there was so much room. At this point, the main factor for Neanderthal extinction seems to have been that their birthrates, and therefore population were plummeting anyway. They probably had fertility issues.
Regarding the Middle East: it is a bottleneck out of Africa, a narrow zone sapiens had to go through, and where Neanderthals had settled: the odds for a meeting and mating are better. I too am proud to be Neanderthal.
Art: maybe the art produced by Neanderthals was just perishable, while Sapiens used stones. Also, music would not leave a lot of traces...
Neanderthals were in Eurasia, enduring while the climate was difficult for about 300 000, to pretend that Neanderthals were less adapted than we are is arrogant rubbish. But maybe Sapiens (who had better infant survival rates) brought pathogens and that too chipped away at Neanderthals.
There's enough people who look exactly like Neanderthals that i refuse to accept them being extinct
Australian Aboriginals have exactly the same head shape, though with smaller brains
Her name is Shaniqua and she's known to J-walk across Woodward Ave when in a hurry to cash out her EBT card at the nearest the nearest ATM machine.
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I doubt that. All Neanderthal bones fall outside the range of human morphology. Their brow ridge is too protruding. They don't have our dome-shaped skull. Their teeth are different and placed differently within their jaws. They don't have a protruding chin bone, which even the most receded human chin has. Their rib cages are much more flared than ours are.
You might see people who have some superficial resemblance, but there are no modern humans who actually look like Neanderthals on a skeletal level.
To prove otherwise, show *one* modern Homo sapiens skull that fits Neanderthal morphological perameters.
@@tonytravelerroute66 You realize black people have the smallest %’s of Neanderthal DNA ?
Neanderthals became extinct for the same reason that the megafauna of Australia became extinct at the same time, which is, increasing surface gravity there about 45,000 to 30,000 thousand years ago. Both regions were in close longitudinal proximity.
Surface gravity in that longitudinal region had been lowered during certain glacial periods in the Quaternary and increased in the corresponding glacial to interglacial periods.
Being able to survive for several hundred thousand years in a cold climate indicates they were innovative and resourceful and those characteristics were passed down to those of us who have up to 5% of their DNA.
Neanderthals, like mammoths and other megafauna, evolved in a lower surface gravity environment as explained in my theory ‘The Gravity Theory of Mass Extinction’, which deals primarily with dinosaurs but applies to the recent Ice Age as well as I explain in one of my books ‘Ice Age Extinctions, A New Theory.’ A gravitational gradient around the globe occurs when large surface mass on the Earth moves to high latitude and therefore closer to the Earth’s spin axis. It moved the Earth’s core elements off-center based on the Law Of Conservation Of Angular Momentum. In this case the large surface mass was ocean water that moved to the polar region during the Quaternary period.
Unlike the megafauna and humans of Africa that experienced the same lower surface gravity as the Neanderthals, Neanderthals were more affected when surface gravity increased because surviving in a colder climate with increasing surface gravity requires obtaining a lot more food than that required in a tropical/subtropical environment putting a lot of stress on Neanderthals and Eurasian megafauna causing their extinction. This is why elephants, ancient Africans and other African megafauna survived but mammoths and other northern megafauna did not. It also explains why today many of African heritage are physically larger than most other modern humans. Their ancestors grew larger in the lower surface gravity as did the Neanderthals but survived because the warm climate helped them in obtaining food, both animal and vegetation, year round by not having to deal with the seasonality issue that the Neanderthals had to deal with in the frigid north with increasing surface gravity approximately 50,000 to 30,000 years ago in the Eurasian longitudinal region .
No, it was not competition with Homo sapiens that caused their extinction, it was increasing surface gravity on part of the globe.
The didn't disappear. They were assimilated into other groups of early and isolated groups of what we consider Homo sapiens sapiens. Just like we have variation today, it has always been that way due to isolated, breeding groups. Other scientist's just want the notoriety of calling these isolated groups a different species. As an argument, I would be considered a lumper vs. a splitter. Until Biology, Anthropology, and anyone else using the term "species" defines what that means, it cannot be classified.
What is your scientific background? Do you work specifically in taxonomy? And can you explain the criteria by which you'd lump Neanderthals (morphology, genetics, etc.) but exclude, say, Homo erectus?
@@FabricofTime lol
They never disappeared. Our two species merged together into one family.
If you can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, you are the same species.
No... according to the scientists in this program, Neanderthals and European and Asiatic people mixed, but Neanderthals and sub Saharan did not. The scientists on this program said that they did not find any Neanderthal genes, DNA, genetic mutations, or signs of mixing with any sub Sahara peoples. So it would be more correctly stated that Neanderthals are some of us but not all of us, and only some of us are them... not we, as in all of us, are. But it was a good start at any rate. I bet during those ancient times, that partnerships outside the family group or clan were hard to come by... so it was probably done at every opportunity.
Have you read the book "Clan of the Cave Bear"? It's about a very young human child who's parents were killed and she was found and adopted by a clan of Neanderthals. It was written by a husband and wife team of anthropologists based on known findings. It was very good.. better than the crappy movie they tried adapting from it.
@@keiferalford7961 They have found Neanderthal DNA in sub-Saharan Africans, though much lower than in Asians in Europeans. And even if it hadn't been found, it would mean that sub-Saharans and Neanderthals never met or at least if they did, they never interbred.
@@glennogborn4692 or a closely related species.
@@harrietharlow9929 It now seems that Asians are almost exclusively harbouring Denisovan DNA with no Neanderthal DNA, while European and North Africans are harbouring small amounts of Neanderthal DNA with no trace of Denisovan DNA. Recent studies have also shown that Neanderthals were eating a lot more than just meat. They were consuming large quantities of edible mushrooms where they were available, and the same goes where there were easily accessible vegetable foods which were also very nutritious. The seem to have been opportunists, who ate whatever was available to them. That could, in fact, have been the thing that ended them. Many of the things they relied on for food were dying out at the same time that they became extinct. Those same changes in conditions made Europe a much more hospitable place for our species. Grains became much more common, as did smaller animals which Homo sapiens was targeting. Basically, when the Neanderthal grocery store closed, they starved. You can see the evidence of malnourishment on the bones of late period Neanderthals.
The Neanderthals provide us with a cautionary tale. We cannot afford to change our world or overpopulate it to the point where we cannot provide enough nourishment for all of us. Ensuring climate change and increasing our population to the point where there are not enough resources for us all will most certainly lead to our extinction too, and at that point there will be no more hominins on this planet. Millions of years of evolution and learning will be for naught, and the Universe will not care. We can learn the lessons from the past, and take action to prevent it from happening again, or we can prove us to be not evolved enough to do that, and continue to damage our world and to overpopulate, and hasten our demise. Very intelligent, but not quite evolved and intelligent enough to survive our own selves.
This is a very interesting subject. We need to study more about the Neanderthal.
Neanderthals were ambush hunters adapted to thick pine forests. When the ice age ended the forests thinned out into meadows and the Neanderthals couldn't adapt to distance hunting. Sapiens had the atlatl which made distance hunting possible. The Neanderthals were basically starved out of existence.
What is an atlatl? What is the word's origin?
The atlatl is a spear thrower that increases the distance and strength with which a spear can be thrown. Thus, the hunter can bring down game from greater and safer distances.
They interacted with modern humans. They where surly exposed to the atlatl and could have utilized it if the wished too. They were probably just bred out. Too few of them, too many of the new guys.
Huh? There were larger forests than today. The end of the last ice age allowed the spread of tall, thick, old deciduous forests. Yes, there were also meadows. It wasn't until humans settled in larger populations that the forests were cleared for farming.
There’s widespread old stories around the world of strange not fully human people living near modern humans.
Whats even more of a fact their is and has never been any evidence otherwise scientists would be the first too tell you dont worry about telling me a conspiracy lol
Neanderthals were not alone, as Homo Erectus also existed in the Middle East and Asia before Neanderthals and up to the time we came on the scene. There is a lot of overlap in the time lines so plenty of opportunity for mixing and fighting. Homo heidelbergensis also was around but already in population decline, so Neanderthal was definitely not alone.....
One has to wonder if the more able and stronger Neanderthal did not help to displace the other groups. One also has to wonder at how our explosion of technology in our times was not duplicated in the hundreds of thousands of years of Neanderthal existence.
As for the cannibalistic camp they found, we have our own stories like the Donner party and the plane crash in South America. Not common but not unheard of.
Neanderthals did create art, do not know why the video says they did not. We have cave paintings and carved bones from their timeline. Maybe not as much or as many as H. Sapiens, but they do exist. As do Neanderthal funeral practices.
And let's also not forget the Denisovans of East Asia, who also interbred with both Neanderthals and Sapiens.
A fine documentary, thnx. I concluded that early on there was some interbreeding, however after 100 000 b. c. modern men's genome changed rendering interbreeding imposible. I belive that neanderthals, since they produced those nice sharp stone tools, have had a neatly trimmed hair and much better tailored clothes. Predators/hunters don't have rags floping arround their legs and arms. And for the hunting: one group of hunters hides in one location. Then a second group of hunters scares animals in the direction towards the first group. Fleeing animals themselves unknowingly approach within range of hunters of the first group wich suddenly pops out of hiding. Aside from spears i bet they were throwing stones, fist size stones, that would brake bones of animals running close by.
I agree, this documentary made too many unwarranted assumptions, influenced by the old "cave man" meme.
They did not become extinct. They evolved into soccer hooligans🙄
Rugby...
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@MrBelmont79) U R incorrect, Neanderthals evolved into Biden Administration warmongers
That was “Homo Habiilus”
MTG proves Neanderthals have not gone extinct.
That's an insult to Neanderthals.
@@harrietharlow9929 Damn. You're right. I didn't think about that. My apologies to the Neanderthal community.
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@@johnnycincocero Thank you. We're tired of being depicted as big dumb brutes. We prefer to be depicted as flower children; at peace with our surroundings at a time when it was impossible to be at peace with anything. Not that we didn't try.
The Neanderthals didn’t become extinct. They interbred with modern humans. They are the same species as modern humans.
When a tiny percentage of DNA in a tiny percentage of people is the only evidence of neanderthals,I'd say that counts as extinct
Sortve, but not really. Interbreeding definitely contributed, but most people only have 2-4% Neanderthal DNA, and some have none at all.
There's more neanderthal DNA now then there was when they thrived
Extintion by absorption. They didn’t disappear
Kinda. But mostly they went extinct. Our species clearly replaced them much more than we absorbed them. Else our skeletons wouldn't look so near-identical to the "Cro-Magnon" homo sapiens that lived alongside Neanderthals for tens of thousands of years in certain regions (& therefore clearly interacted with them -- & competed w them).
How little Neanderthal DNA is found in us proves that we obviously COULD interbreed w them to the degree of producing at least minimally competent offspring, YET that there were social -- or perhaps genetic -- reasons why this really didn't happen more than it did. Given the MANY opportunities there would've been for the two species to interbreed -- if the two species were indeed socially or genetically inclined to do so.
My feeling is the physical differences between the two species were hard to reconcile between the two groups. We know how visually-driven our species is, & how given to disgust we are over rather trivial physical aberrations. So too were Neanderthals, probably. Yes, we can "unlearn" some of that. But there would be limits.
Perhaps in a small region at one point -- there was a full-scale reconciling of the two species into one -- & that that intermediate species was then absorbed into the larger European Sapiens population (which would explain by Europeans have the lion's share of the Euro-Neanderthals in their DNA). I tend to think there are better explanations for the Neanderthal in our blood, though.
The subjet of that report is very ineresting, however the movement of the camera is tupid.
Female neanderthals had no problem mating and giving birth by male homo sapiens. But female homo sapiens, because the neanderthal's head was bigger and elongated, could not easily bear offspring from neanderthal men...
There’s isn’t any mitochondrial Neanderthal Eve that exist in any modern human female
Good point.....
There’s no scientific basis for that. Smaller maternal size means that babies are born smaller, then catch up on paternal genetic growth after birth.
Do they really know that their final resting place was always a cave, or is that the only place where they have found remains, since remains are much more likely to fossilize in a cave? Are we falling for the oldest falacy around, that absence of evidence is evidence of absence? Many American Indians were using platform graves as recently as three generations ago, yet there is no evidence now of those above ground graves ever existed, even though in some places there was what was considered "sacred ground" where many people where placed on platform graves. Yet even knowing where these were, we find no evidence of their ever having existed. The majority of Neanderthals may have been laid to rest in ways in which the remains did not survive, and as was true of many Native American peoples, this might have been intentional. The belief is that your body may nourish the fauna and flora of this world, just as the animals of this world nourished us when we are alive. You give back. you are a part of, not apart from. It is the eternal circle of life. Might the Neanderthals have had a similar belief? Might it have been a minority of Neanderthals who were buried in caves, rather than that they were always buried in caves? If they are going to say that they were always buried in caves, what is the proof of this? It's a pretty bold claim, so it should also have a pretty convincing answer.
It stays preserved in cages better
I’ve often wondered if Neanderthals were the lost remembered “ Trolls “ of the Scandinavians
If you wrote about Neanderthals as trolls, to me it only means one thing,
that the CNN anchors have a lot in common with Neanderthals
Yes you guessed Right. ORCS, TROLL, Goblins of Norse Myths 😮
1). Neanderthals weren't a single unified people, so other Neanderthals would have looked like strangers to them too. 2). By the time Homo Sapiens came into contact with European Neanderthals, they would have already bred with Neanderthals in the Middle East and therefore would not have looked all that much fremd to them.
there is one in congress that needs to be studied.
MTG looks like she knows her way around a mammoth carcass.
I've always thought the same thing about AOC.
@@joebwannabeRespect your superiors.
@@malbers35wait we are not talking about AOC?
Wrong AOC is just a Jackass crossed with a Hyena
It could be the Neanderthals were inextricably linked to the large fauna of the time and when the planet warmed and so these faunae faded away, so did the Neanderthal. We still retain some their DNA and DNA I would imagine from other archaic humans and that's probably a good thing. The cannibalism thing is usually a starvation event. Starvation / cannibalism events have played out in other peoples and situations.
See hybrid ape theory to learn more.
They dissapeared before the warming and before the disparition of most megafauna. They were outcompeted and wiped out by modern humans, we do that wherever we go, even nowadays.
They will look back to our species today and call us the primitive species they evolved from.
I would like to see a documentary exploring where Neanderthals come from.
The more I learn about these resourceful, empathetic, intelligent people, the prouder I am to be a Sapiens/Neanderthal hybrid. They were extant for some of the tougher 300,000 years in human history. And they left me a precious gift down the ages since I carry a Neanderthal variant that is protective against Covid. Thank you!
37:37 What about if they were living in other places too like in a primitive hut. Those places did not survive. Cave dwellings survived so we think they were living only in caves.
That was really interesting. Thankyou.
Great show
If you search hard and long you can always find exactly what you want . But in your search for certain things are you dismissing evidence that is right in front of you ? Never assume .
is the is an old video? the video has a very old style to it.
Yes.. it’s over a decade old.. it’s interesting, but it’s not current..
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I’m confused as why they dubbed Svante, he speaks English perfectly well.. 🤷♀️
My own theory is that Neanderthals (bless them) inadvertently became extinct through the simple and understandable process of falling for impossibly cute cave lion kittens, (the little spotty bundles of loveliness), which sadly became 800lb ravenous death machines with both pretty spots and really quite vivid anger issues.
Modern Humans aka 'CRO-Magnons' wiped them out, indirectly and Directly. Oh well, QUE SERA SERA !! 😊
YES...THEY DID CREATE ART!!!!
I agree, if they face painted they likely painted other things and had an aesthetic sense.
Jason Momoa has been killing it lately
I thought bonobos were our closest extant relative.
Bonobos and chimpanzees equally. We share some genes more with bonobos and some genes more with chimps, but the basic percentage of shared genes is the same. However, many people still use "chimpanzee" to refer to both species in the genus Pan. I'm not one of them, but it is still common for people to group them together that way.
I think perhaps one day a defrosting human body will be found in Siberian permafrost and it will have upwards pointed ears.
Cool thanks mate
Our closest relation.
Yeah, My brother is a Neanderthal.
Their internet went down permanently
This is very interesting, but why are Neanderthals still portrayed mostly as cave dwellers. It's likely that remains we're concentrated and best preserved in caves, but it seems they would have built and preferred more portable dwellings like animal skin tents and earthen huts like the North American aborigines (the Indians and Eskimos). These more portable dwelling would have been more suitable for following wild animal populations they depended upon.
Excellent point. if those items were exposed, not buried under ice or maybe in caves, decay or others would disappear those items.
How accurate was physical image reconstruction that assumes straight or blond hair always means pale skin and blue eyes, or that a smaller brain is always a sign of a less capable human. As for pigmentation, the people of Australia and Asia are living counters to such certainty.
(Never be afraid to come back and correct what you write😂).
If Neanderthal genes are in our 21st century gene pools, what is the definition of species?
Historically, when have humans cannibalistic? War, the Oregon Trail, religious sacrifice, to consume properties of a warrior.
We are so quick to equate intellect or intelligence with technological advancement. we are so certain of cultural superiority is ours.
Studying Neanderthals may reveal to us the super facie of assuming difference as being a separation of species.
It always amazes me how narrowly research is restricted to Europe. I am curious to know which abyss separates it from the rest of Asia.
30:07 gene sequencing now in 2024, will probably reveal even more.
Maybe 20-30 years ago, I remember attending a café presentation. His opinion was that there was no presence of Neanderthal around. i knew one day scientific study would prove otherwise. To adhere to his theories is conveniently fixated.
40:34 Did any Neanderthal travel away from these regions?
42:00 Which is the gene for human speaking?
Crows talk all day. We haven't learned their language. Are we therefore less intelligent when it us who cannot join in the discussion? Their abilities to converse and use tools to solve problems must be sapiens.
45:47 The people shared a common land mass which may account for why modern gene testing found more Neanderthal genes across Eurasia than amongst other peoples south of the Sahara. But, historically, I tend to believe some searchers are not researchers and so have less incentive to acknowledge ancestors in common.
49:33 more successful. We cannot know if they did not have emotional intelligence. One reason i have become disenchanted with ancestry dot com doing survey questions about hobbies, mega leaps of wishful thinking.
51:27 How do we know that they did not share some of their knowledge and culture when they encountered other travelers?
They did not disappear, they are within us.
I am reminded of a cartoonist and a children's book. When the farmer entered the barn, the animals stopped talking. Maybe the crows are clever enough to never allow us to learn they're language.
Whatever wiped out the wooly mammoth is what finished neanderthal.
You really didn’t pay attention in school, did you.
Most mammoth populations disappeared between 14,000 and 10,000 years ago. In some areas they lasted up to 4000 - 5000 yrs ago. Neanderthals died out around 40,000 yrs ago. So not even close.
We can’t ‘Get On’ with our kind. So imagine the crap we’d do to them if they were here.
How did you misspell Missouri? Makes all the info in this video suspect...
Wow. We've learned a lot since this was made, huh?
Forgive me, why would one drag the whole animal to your living space -attracting scavengers, dragging the heavy inedible stuff all the way? At least a rough ‘ cleaning ‘ appears more likely.
Female Neanderthals didn't have mixed babies. Neanderthals and humans had a common ancestor 500 000y to 700000y ago. Every human has mitochondrial DNA from a single female from 150 000y ago. So female Neanderthals didn't had that mitochondrial DNA... and didn't gave birth to mixed human babies. Otherwise present day humans would have two lines of mitochondrial DNA.
However, present-day humans out of Africa have Neanderthal DNA. So male Neanderthals and female humans gave origin to human offsprings. Living together, having mixed couples, and female Neanderthal not been hable to have human offsprings, after some generations, this lead to the extinction of the Neanderthals, or the complete "genetic assimilation" in modern humans.
But why couldn't they have mixed human offsprings? It looks like they had some blood types that were incompatible with some human's blood types and the fetus attacked by Neanderthal antibodies would develop hydropsis fetalis leading to his dead in utero and late miscarriages. Probability many female Neanderthals could die in the process. In the end there would be female humans male humans and a ever dwelling male Neanderthal population....
Sapiens are seemingly upwardly mobile, meaning they tend to have many children, strive to better their environment and form widespread trade links whereas Neanderthals were perhaps content living a subsistence existence, remaining roughly the same for millennia much like Inuit until recently. Eventually Sapiens would have just elbowed them out, even without warfare. Neanderthals would have been spread out in isolated groups doomed to die out through inbreeding.
Or The bigger brained Neanderthals weren't into people plagues
Homoseapians operated in groups of up to 1000 the neanderthal was in groups of 200, we can speculate the technological advancement of Homo sapiens was superior .... included military technology / strategy therefore they could conquer more Territory .... neanderthal Genome is about 2% of homosapiens currently
we gave them all the clap and they died.
I think the biggest difference in our intelligence was imagination and innovation.
The answer is in the Urantia Book....
The silliest load of guesswork and nonsense I've ever witnessed.
I really enjoyed and appreciate this piece of work that you all have put together for all too see. Thank You
Phoenix Reset? Then interbreed?
They were better than us and we killed them out of envy.
you know yourself best.
Ok so, for the 195th time.. Here is how it happened.. Neanderthals had much larger craniums than modern humans.. Therefor their maternal death rate during childbirth was much higher than modern humans.. However when Neanderthal woman married modern men their resultant children HAD to have been smaller and more gracile than pure bred Neanderthals.. This meant less maternal death in childbirth. Differential birth rates meant that over the 9 generations necessary for new species to emerge- a new species- us would certainly emerge.. They would have had huge advantages when compared to their parents-- They would have been slightly smaller and more gracile than their Neanderthal moms thus needing less food..an enormous advantage when game became scarce.. They could likely benefit from heir moms inborn resistance to cold as well.. No charge for setting you people straight.
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Bruce Peek
If we want to make our science more accurate we need to first and foremost understand the PSYCHOLOGY of the scientist.
specially the guy yappin with the micro pipette in his hand talkin about contaminating the DNA
SO, what happened to them???
In ten thousand years..
AI androids will be saying.
"What happened to Homo Sapiens?"
They could find uncontaminated DNA in the tooth pulp.
This was filmed over a decade ago..
It’s interesting but not current..
We are not extinct.
I consider myself to be a sapiens-Neanderthal hybrid.
But will be soon
No, they are alive and in society, most of them are on a benefit or social security. That is partly why the planet is rooted
well if they wanted to stick around longer they shoulda gone with meanderthals.
We probobly screwed them over for profit, just like now.😅
Much of the land they inhabited is under water , it’s also worth pointing out we live at a time of around 2 million different species, and most of them are at historically low levels in the whole of human history, Go back to the age of the neanderthal and they would have shared the world with around 4 million different species, and bar climatic changes that where so big they caused, local extinctions , rest of the time they lived in a world of abundance, to mainly eat meat , when most of your teeth are not designed for that , would suggest a abundance of meat , once the mega fauna died out , perhaps that was a big factor they died out , but most certainly for 10s of 1000s of years there was more than 20,000 individuals living at once , every other species of animal has more than that , why is it ancient humans where so low in population, this makes no sense, over the range they found west Europe to Eurasia up to India and the western Russia step, I would have put there average population during most of their existence was at Half a million , but once the decline started it was a slow decline, neanderthal first emerge 500,000,000 years ago , only the last 100,000 years was there a decline, before that there is no reason to believe they where few in number
It's as if we HAVE to be superior to EVERYTHING on the planet. THEY DID TALK, and they survived far longer than we will!!!!
We have minds with the capacity for universal explanation. No other known life form has this. It's what makes us the only hope this planet has in the long term. Only we can stop the asteroid.
In 10,000 yrs we will be wondering that how did Abroginies and Red Indians went extinct,wallah?
....Prof.Dr.Nasir Fazal gold medalist Cambridge
dogs didn't trust them enough to be domesticated by them. if dogs don't trust someone, I don't trust someone.
So now the Neanderthals have become super athletes ??? Shorter legs but faster than a modern man?
IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION of science must be fought.
The truth is that Able killed Cain.not the other way round.
This is all speculation. We only know they lived ...
Ooh - maybe WE found they TASTED like Chicken !🇨🇦 " ... KFC BUCKET OF CAVEMAN ..."
WAR IS EVIL
Maybe they just evolved after our hominid ancestors merged with them biologically.
Maybe they also tried to steal the Rainbow 🌈 from the Aberhamic God and felt His Wrath as they became one with the light?
They did not have better weapons. We did.
The common link between us the asians and Neanderthals is denisovans!
"The Neanderthals are the only other species of human to have inhabited planet earth," in your description. Really? There have been more than a dozen separate species of human.
They aren't extinct. They migrated to Chicago and LA.
*Florida!
So to say we have in common with many
Still going around
They female Neanderthals had strong legs.
11:44 the people that don't know we are air land water electricity that's the 1500 clients in each segregation only by contagion 6500 staff plus our families and extra rooms for the children and adults then everyone has equally for faith study and practice in each of the arts
39:50 all the perfect habitats to study at each dig without disturbing our surroundings breeding and releasing all of our endangered species and perfect seed banks for all food stocks in one
A good documentary.
And not canibalism?
Natural selection
before They hunted humans as food and then they mix with humans..
I'd like to know more about the "giant" humans (?) - what was their origin where are they along the evolutionary map, and what happened to them?
Read Genesis 6. Fallen angel-human hybrids called Nephilim.
@@POWFAM2011 🤦
They went back to their planet 🙂
They didn't exist. Just ancient fiction.
"The giant humans" are just sensationalized popularization of Homo heidelbergensis which is scientific nonsense in most part.
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”
An ancient text.....from a racial memory?
EMH did, early modern humans, we did, simple as that.
They're not extinct, Margery Talor Green for example.
😂 ..... And a few of her fellow politicians.
europeans (and probably beyond, idk) have their DNA in us, so, we def interbred.
Why did the Neanderthals disappear?
ALIENS.
JK.
WOW! How quickly this comment section devolved from science documentary into mudslinging political brawl!!!
Nothing MTG is alive and..........I want to say well, but you know space lasers
4:50 what. The. Fuck. 😂😂😂 calm down mate