Neanderthal's Extinction May Be Caused By an Entirely Different Reason

[Judi Lynn]

By Rain Jordan Feb 10, 2022 09:28 AM EST

The concept that modern people killed off Neanderthals as soon as they arrived from Africa is challenged by discoveries.

Homo sapiens existed in western Europe some 54,000 years ago, according to the discovery of a child's teeth and stone tools in a cave in southern France.

In other words, the two species might have coexisted for thousands of years before previously assumed, showing that they could have coexisted for a long time.

The study was published in the Science Advances journal.

Groundbreaking Study

A team led by Prof Ludovic Slimak of the University of Toulouse uncovered the artifacts in a cave known as Grotte Mandrin in the Rhone Valley. When he realized evidence of an early modern human habitation, he was taken aback.

More:
https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/49325/20220210/neanderthals-extinction-caused-entirely-different-reason.htm

[argyl]

1. Fascinating and illuminating. Read the intro before the article.

My first thought of the poster was you. Thanks for this and so many other posts like this.

[Judi Lynn]

2. So glad it was worth the time. Thank you, argyl! ⭐️

[dupagelib]

3. Fake news

Neanderthals are alive, just look at the republican party.

[wnylib]

8. Nah. Neanderthals actually had a larger brain

than modern humans. That would leave out Republicans. My guess is that Republicans would be a throwback to Australopithicus.

[if..fish..had..wings]

4. Actually

Paleoanthropologists do not believe that Homo sapiens killed off Homo Neanderthalensis.
Sapiens and Neanderthalensis actually lived side by side for a very long time and they interbred. We carry Neanderthalensis DNA within our genome.

BTW, we also interbred with the Denisovans and possibly even Homo Erectus.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Maybe we simply outbred them, even as we

interbred. I can think of a number of reasons why we might have outlasted them, even if my reasons aren't at all the correct ones.

I have a relatively large amount of Neanderthal DNA, which I happen to think is quite cool. Apparently, Neanderthal genes are not all that useful, and seem to be diminishing rather rapidly.

[if..fish..had..wings]

6. Actually

Neanderthal genes likely gave us some protection against viruses that our ancestors encountered when they left Africa.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Perhaps. But from something I read recently,

the Neanderthal genes apparently don't offer any advantage, which is why they are quickly disappearing.

Perhaps that long ago advantage did exist, but not any more.

[Tumbulu]

9. One theory that seemed plausible to me is that modern humans were better at sewing

and that the increase in survival of offspring in the colder climate by even 2%, over time, would result in our species becoming dominant.