What Caused The Extinction Of The Neanderthals? | The Neanderthal in Us 

They never disappeared. Our two species merged together into one family.

Making jewelry or decorating themselves, is art.

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...

The Neanderthals didn’t become extinct. They interbred with modern humans. They are the same species as modern humans.

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.

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.

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.

Barely touches on their extinction. The title should change

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.

This is a very interesting subject. We need to study more about the Neanderthal.

If we want to make our science more accurate we need to first and foremost understand the PSYCHOLOGY of the scientist.

They did not become extinct. They evolved into soccer hooligans🙄

The subjet of that report is very ineresting, however the movement of the camera is tupid.

Great show

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.

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.

there is one in congress that needs to be studied.

YES...THEY DID CREATE ART!!!!

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.

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? 😊

How did you misspell Missouri? Makes all the info in this video suspect...

We are not extinct.

We did Killing and interpreting. It wasn't the first and it won't be the last

I really enjoyed and appreciate this piece of work that you all have put together for all too see. Thank You

Our closest relation. Yeah, My brother is a Neanderthal.

we gave them all the clap and they died.

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.

IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION of science must be fought.

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.

A good documentary.

Natural selection

is the is an old video? the video has a very old style to it.

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.

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!

They could find uncontaminated DNA in the tooth pulp.

WAR IS EVIL

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

Ooh - maybe WE found they TASTED like Chicken !🇨🇦 " ... KFC BUCKET OF CAVEMAN ..."

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

They was hungry....

The truth is that Able killed Cain.not the other way round.

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

4:50 what. The. Fuck. 😂😂😂 calm down mate

EMH did, early modern humans, we did, simple as that.

They were better than us and we killed them out of envy.

Jason Momoa has been killing it lately

Whatever wiped out the wooly mammoth is what finished neanderthal.

dogs didn't trust them enough to be domesticated by them. if dogs don't trust someone, I don't trust someone.

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?

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

50 seconds in and I already know that they made up the whole story of the film.

Maybe they just evolved after our hominid ancestors merged with them biologically.

13:37 omg. Ron DeSantis????!?

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!!!!

This is all speculation. We only know they lived ...

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....

Nothing MTG is alive and..........I want to say well, but you know space lasers

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. best Bruce Peek

Inflation.

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This is not a current film 🤔🤔 several years old by now.. and why is Svante being dubbed? He speaks English perfectly well 🤷‍♀️ ..perplexing 🤔🤔

They aren't extinct. They migrated to Chicago and LA.

Demographics contributed to their demise.

I'd guess the Government had something to do with it.

Does anyone else hate the way they can't pronounce the "h" in Neanderthal. and say Neandertall

There are still babies born with tales so why is this hidden ?

Paying taxes

9:00 Marjorie Taylor Green to a T.

They're not extinct, Margery Talor Green for example.

a world of stoners.

Eh. This is a bit of a blow job if you ask me.

The extinction by"modern" human beings you mean the "Native American's" ?

.they assimilated.