This article was originally published on June 11, 2021.
“I wouldn’t say Neanderthals died out — because you and I both have Neanderthal DNA in us,” says William Banks, an archaeologist with the French National Centre for Scientific Research. “They didn’t essentially disappear without leaving their mark.” Archaeologists have found Neanderthal fossils from the Altai Mountains in central Asia down to Southwest Asia, and widely across Europe. These archaic humans and their evolutionary predecessors are the only known hominids to have occupied Europe before modern humans.began to make major inroads in the continent about 42,000 years ago, though a few fossils have turned up from earlier periods.
Come on. Surely it was Putin!
Don't Lie. mtgreenee Keeps their Pedigree going.
I still see many around ..
AllenPepe 'Heroin. Kills them all, you know' -John Lydon, punk scientist
Maybe they survive within our own lineage after blending for many millennia.
Think Homo sapiens. The species that created the hydrogen bomb. A species that uses warfare. Of course it was competition. And violence. That killed of the Neanderthals
They didn't disappear, they just moved to Washington, DC.
Because they were ugly; duh! Only the FITTEST survive.
Can suggest an understanding for how & why biosphere is currently disappearing...an understanding of the ideologies at play: