"Homo sapiens Might Not Be Responsible for Neanderthal" Topic
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Tango01 | 01 Feb 2020 10:05 p.m. PST |
…Demise "eanderthals may have gone extinct due to chance, and not, as some researchers previously thought, due to competition for resources with Homo sapiens, according to a study published on Wednesday (November 27) in PLOS ONE. Simulations of population dynamics, carried out by researchers in the Netherlands, suggests that inbreeding, small population sizes, and a pinch of misfortune could have been sufficient to wipe out our hominin cousins around 40,000 years ago. "The standard story is that Homo sapiens invaded Europe and the near east where Neanderthals were living and then we outsmarted them or outnumbered them," study coauthor Krist Vaesen of Eindhoven University of Technology tells The Guardian. "The main conclusion of our work is that humans were not needed for the Neanderthals to go extinct. It's certainly possible that it was just bad luck."…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Andrew Walters | 03 Feb 2020 12:47 p.m. PST |
I understand there is a lot of ambiguity about when the two peoples were completing for which hunting grounds, etc. The domestication of dogs made H. Sapiens a much, much more effective hunter, and one author is suggesting that's what made the difference. That raises the question of why H. Neandertales didn't domesticate dogs, which raises the possibility that the dogs, for whatever reason, *chose* Sapiens. That question exists at the end of a chain of speculation, but it's kind of intriguing. |
USAFpilot | 03 Feb 2020 1:14 p.m. PST |
Then there is "The Hitchhikers Guide to the … end of the Universe" explanation. We humans are descendants of aliens (particularly those aliens who were the useless part of their society) who killed off all the Neanderthals. |
JMcCarroll | 03 Feb 2020 5:01 p.m. PST |
I thought they all died from vaping. Well that's the CNN line. |
Tango01 | 04 Feb 2020 11:35 a.m. PST |
(smile) The dogs tale is quite interesting…. thanks! Amicalement Armand |
Mike Target | 06 Feb 2020 8:44 a.m. PST |
"That raises the question of why H. Neandertales didn't domesticate dogs, which raises the possibility that the dogs, for whatever reason, *chose* Sapiens. " I can't quite see how you'd get to that particular possibility; certainly though I'd say there something in the idea that dogs and humans domesticated each other, especially when I'm stood there with a (slightly soggy) ball in hand wondering did I teach the dog to bring it back, or did the dog teach me to throw it? The possibility that I'm drawn to then isn't so much that the dogs chose the ummies, but that the neanderthals rejected the dog…maybe they simply saw them as disease ridden pests to be driven away from hearth and home. |
Tango01 | 06 Feb 2020 12:02 p.m. PST |
Maybe they saw them as serious competitors about hunting … you could also speculate … that the "tenderness" of feelings of Omo Sapiens to see the dog puppies of those who followed them to eat their remains … was not in the DNA of the Neandertales… Amicalement Armand
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