What really killed the Neanderthals? - BBC Reel 

It’s fascinating to imagine the lifestyle of the Neanderthals, and the possible interplay between them and “Modern Humans”.

Is it not possible that the older humans (neanderthals) as a final blow got extinct in the same catastrophic events that killed almost all American and European mega fauna? We now know that a gigantic, 1 km wide, meteorite crashed in to the earth at Greenland - creating the enormous (31 km or 19 mi wide) Hiawatha impact crater, that has been hidden, buried under the Greenland ice sheet until it was found as late as 2018. It is very likely that this event was the direct cause to the sudden extinction of many if the iconic ice-age species, such as mammoth, saber tooth cats, cave bears, woolly rhinoceros, gigant sloths, mastodonts, and many more.

Fascinating....To be continued!

After the heartbreaking news about Juukan Gorge Cave at the weekend it restores a little of my faith to see a trusted broadcasting authority talking sensibly about Neandertals. Keep raising the light of Science above the darkness of anti-intellectualism, sensationalism and greed, for that is how we save the future.

they "interbred" in the same way Ghengis Khan interbred with all the central Asians and europeans

I think they were breed out

My cousin is still with us.

I just cant see how humans would replace neanderthals, simply because neanderthals didnt replace chimps or orangutan’s or apes etc

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I think they couldn't adapt fast enough to the climate changes, and that's one reason they were biologically driven to mix with modern humans. To pass on genes that might be beneficial again at some point. And it probably benefited modern humans that were used to hot climates, and didn't have cold weather genes. The reason I'm totally convinced of this is because I can see it in my modern life. (I have had DNA tests done, and carry Neanderthal genes) Most of my life I lived in Northern climates and had good health, with some mild fatigue and feeling run down in the brief summers. I chalked it up to I just don't tolerate summer well. Later on, I moved to a subtropical area temporarily. And even though I didn't spend much time in the sun, I still got really sick. And I noticed a pattern that when the uv index was over 5/6 that's where the trouble was. My summers in the old climate when it would reach 7 or 8 I would have mild symptoms. But where it reached 12 and above, I couldn't even go out and run errands in the day for an hour or two. I would get so sick. Then after being in that climate for 3 years I got diagnosed with with Lupus. When I'm in Northern climate where the uv index isn't high, it goes dormant and I feel good. I have thought about it, and imagine when I was stuck in the subtropics and climate was killing me, is that similar to what they went through? After all, with the full set of Neanderthal genes, it must have been hell for them to be stuck where there wasn't a suitable climate left anymore. I think they would've been sick from it in more ways than we know, and the fertility and lifespan would've went in toilet. I feel bad for them, and everytime I think about what misery I went through in that subtropical climate I think about them. I stayed stuck longer than I expected because of financial issues. But I don't think they had anywhere to go. Nature really is cruel when you can't adapt fast enough on this unpredictable planet.

They had a tiny population compared to our ancestors so we likely just absorbed their populations into our own during their decline.

It had nothing to do with adaptability. It had nothing to do with competition with Cro-Magnum. Neanderthals were basically the same, with few small differences. Anywhere Cro-Magnum could thrive, so could Neanderthaler. Neanderthaler wasn't "killed", he was simply bred out. Small numbers and dominant genes doomed our upright brother.