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The biggest misconception is that the evolution of a species necessitates its extinction, the descendants of Neanderthals are still alive today, and still look primarily how they used to.
The biggest misconception is that the evolution of a species necessitates its extinction, the descendants of Neanderthals are still alive today, and still look primarily how they used to.
Not all Neanderthals were the same. Neanderthals were composed of many sub-species, who evolved in different environments
Northern Eurasians for instance, descend, from a sub-species of Neanderthals that braced & survived in glaciated Eurasia https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0005151
Northern Eurasians for instance, descend, from a sub-species of Neanderthals that braced & survived in glaciated Eurasia https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0005151
The first Neanderthals that we know of are 350,000 years old, but some estimates push this back as far as 500,000 years. During this time Homo Sapiens did not even exist bar their extremely primitive ancestor, Homo Erectus with a brain size of 900cc vs Modern 1400cc
Around 11-24k years ago is when we start to see 'Neanderthals' disappear from the archeological record, but then in the same areas, the emergence of Cro-Magnons, originally thought to be the result of minor hybridisation, now understood to be much more complicated than this
Sapiens first arrived in Europe 40k yrs ago, and at this time Neanderthals had a brain size of 1700cc, which was larger than the later Cro-Magnons, and modern humans. The differences in skull are 2 fold, they had an underdeveloped frontal lobe, and an overdeveloped occipital
The underdeveloped frontal lobe would speculate that they had problems with decision making, empathy, social awareness, and all of the things that makes Sapien a naturally extroverted people.
The overdeveloped occipital would speculate that they had much higher capacity for visual abilities including distinction of fine details, colours, movement, and spatial intelligence, much better than modern humans by a substantial degree.
Neanderthals were able to talk before Sapiens, the genes required for the proliferation of language, and the cultural transmission of such a feat was almost certainly passed from Neanderthals to Sapiens, and not the other way around
https://www.nature.com/news/2007/071018/full/news.2007.177.html
https://www.nature.com/news/2007/071018/full/news.2007.177.html
As early as 370k years ago, Neanderthals had the ability to produce clothes to survive in the glacial period, this was 170k years before the first Sapiens even emerged https://anthropology.net/2009/06/26/neanderthals-dried-fresh-meat-wore-tailored-clothing-energy-study/
Neanderthals looked after their sick and old, buried their dead, laid them to rest with possessions and items such as flowers and gifts. Sapiens only start these practices around the time we see the first interactions of them with Neanderthals who taught them these things
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/div-classtitlethe-shanidar-iv-flower-burial-a-re-evaluation-of-neanderthal-burial-ritualdiv/C28BB4644C55E12ED64819A260A5055D https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287781004_Krapina_-_A_mortuary_practice_site_with_cannibalistic_rites
The earliest known Sapien buriels are 100k years old in the Levant, an area they would have cohabitated with Neanderthals. However, the Sapiens buried at this burial were originally thought to be Neanderthals due to their phenotypes, indicating that inbreeding was going on
Neanderthals were mostly carnivorous and specialised in big game, and there is evidence of them being partial to seafood including dolphins and seals.
Thiamine deficiency also known as high-calorie malnutrition, which is due to one's inability to derive nutrients from large amounts simple-carbs, is a trait that is passed down from Neanderthals, this is why many North Europeans see such a benefit from Keto or Ketolike diets
Neanderthals produced wooden and stone tools, with extreme technical efficiency in ways that would not be replicated until the postdiluvian period as well as the mastery of fire, both feats that were also not seen in Sapiens until first-contact.
Neanderthals are famous for living in caves, but they also constructed homes and small villages from mammoth bones.
Neanderthals made art, crafted jewelry, ornaments, feathers, and even used imagery to teach fellow Neanderthals on how to hunt, many of the cave drawings we know Neanderthals for have since been understood to be ice age lesson plans for hunting game
Neanderthals invented string, hearths, homes, herbal remedies, the lissoir, make-up, & the world's first musical instrument as well as sophisticated music in general
Neanderthals were the first to master seafaring 100k years ago. Neanderthal tools have been found on Crete and many other places around the world that would have been inaccessible without boats. https://phys.org/news/2012-03-evidence-neanderthals-boats-modern-humans.html
Neanderthals prefered to live in very small groups, that had little or no contact with each other, Neanderthals did not have a social brain (frontal cortex) but a visual brain (occipital lobe).
They smoked, dried, and cured meat, and were notorious hoarders. O
They smoked, dried, and cured meat, and were notorious hoarders. O
Neanderthals evolved in the coldest environment imaginable, so conservation of energy was an extremely major concern. Preforming unnecessary actions would have created a disadvantage
Eye contact is a sign of aggression in primates and Neanderthals were no exception. Modern Humans use eye contact as a social tool, but in competitive environments this archaic usage of eye contact comes back. Sapiens can ignore sensory input, while Neanderthals cannot
OCD, Aspergers, ADHD, Schizophrenia, BPD, and many other 'disorders' have been directly linked and tied to genes that we have inherited from Neanderthals, do any of the behaviours of Neanderthals seem neurodivergent to you?
The 'Great Leap Foward' in Sapien cognition is directly because of interbreeding and gene transfer between Neanderthals and Sapiens. Every single living Eurasian has Neanderthal DNA, did Neanderthals really go extinct?
When we speak of 'Neanderthal DNA', we fail to mention that this is only genes that we have been able to 100% without a doubt trace back to being uniquely and distinctly Neanderthalic. This means essentially nothing, a full blooded Neanderthal could show up as 2% Neanderthal
The earliest known religious practices come from Neanderthals. There is evidence of not only totem worship, but also animal worship, specifically worship of the bear, a word so reviled in Hyperborean society, all root words only describe the bear, they do not name it directly
In Origins of Neuroscience, it is spoken how a 70k year old Neanderthal skull in Shanidar Cave in Iraq showed evidence of healed skull wounds, proving that Neanderthals had some form of medicine before Sapiens even reached Europe
They also made tea out of chamomile & yarrow!
They also made tea out of chamomile & yarrow!
Since they could paint and create art, they also have the knowledge and ability to manufacture paint themselves. This makes perfect sense as Neanderthals were primarily visual-spatial thinkers, not verbal-social thinkers like Sapiens.
Europeans inherited many genes relating to immune system from Neanderthals like your HLA types & genes that increase the risk for Type-2 Diabetes and Chron's disease
Prominent eyebrows, big eyes, strong but receded jaws, wide shoulders and chests and pronounced occipital lobes and buns are all features inherited from Neanderthals in Europeans and Middle Easterners
East Asians have the POU2F3 gene inherited from Neanderthals which is involved in keratin production and is responsible for straightening hair. This does not however mean all Neanderthals had straight hair, as the genes for wavy hair are also from Neanderthals.
The level of hair colour diversity in Europe wouldve taken 850,00 years to develop, while Sapien have been in Europe no longer than 40k years. All fair genes are inherited from gene transmission with Neanderthals
DNA tests have demonstrated the Neanderthals had fair skin, and the genes for red hair and freckling are also from them as well. Mutations for blonde and red hair have not been found in Europe prior to the Bronze Age except in Northeastern Europe
The genes for light eyes almost certainly evolved from Neanderthals too. The statistical probability that Neanderthals who evolved in high latitudes of Europe is far higher than less than 30k years for Sapiens in Northern Europe
Mesolithic Europeans in Spain & Luxembourg have the HERC2 mutation for blue eyes, almost certainly inherited by Neanderthals. This mutation is also found in parts of Asia settled by PIE Speakers belonging to the R1a and r1b paternal lineages
Since PIEs (Hyperboreans) carried very different paternal lines from Mesolithic Europeans (C, F, K, & I) and only shared a few maternal lines (U4 & U5), their HERC2 mutation was likely passed down from groups of Neanderthals
Here are some traits that Neanderthals had that you might share
Occipital bun
Low, flat, elongated skull
An empty space behind the wisdom teeth
Protruding eyebrow bone (including big deep eye cavity between the eye and eyebrow).
Bigger, rounder eyes than average
Occipital bun
Low, flat, elongated skull
An empty space behind the wisdom teeth
Protruding eyebrow bone (including big deep eye cavity between the eye and eyebrow).
Bigger, rounder eyes than average
Broad, projecting nose
Nose bone making a "triangle" between the nose and cheeks/orbits
Little or no protruding chin
Short, bowed shoulder blades
Large round finger tips
Red hair, brown hair with red pigments, freckles
Fair skin, hair and eyes
Nose bone making a "triangle" between the nose and cheeks/orbits
Little or no protruding chin
Short, bowed shoulder blades
Large round finger tips
Red hair, brown hair with red pigments, freckles
Fair skin, hair and eyes
Larger mental foramen in mandible for facial blood supply (jaw and cheek are bigger or better supplied in blood than average. This increased blood supply could result in the cheeks being red like blushing when doing physical exercise or when the weather is cold.)
While it is often said that Neanderthals went extinct, if this is the case than Homo Sapiens also went extinct as well. Interestingly enough, this is the theory accepted by most Anthropologist now, as we distinguish modern humans as Homo Sapien Sapiens, not Homo Sapiens
What one must take away from this is simple, if a species evolves does it go extinct? No, it doesn't. Neanderthals never went extinct, nor did basal sapiens. If you want to find a Basal Sapien, look no further than the modern Capoid (Khoisan)
Notice their frontal lobes
Notice their frontal lobes
There is a story, not a legend mind you, of a giant feral woman found in Abkhazia who supposedly looked exactly like a Neanderthal, except more hairy. This is highly corroborated, she had children, and they turned out like normal humans. Her name was Zana
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/dna-evidence-suggests-captured-russian-ape-woman-020288
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/dna-evidence-suggests-captured-russian-ape-woman-020288
So if pretty much every single facet of modern human society, culture, civilisation, and technological advancement comes from Neanderthals, skills & traditions that supersede Sapiens by at 100-500k years, are we really Homo Sapiens?
No.
Come home Neanderthal man.
No.
Come home Neanderthal man.
