Homo Neanderthalensis: 'The Neanderthal Man' | Prehistoric Humans Documentary

What comes to mind when you think of a neanderthal? Even though perceptions of these ancient humans have changed drastically over the past few decades, it's still likely that the word is synonymous with brutish, primitive, knuckle-dragging apes. The classic image of Homo neanderthalensis, the neanderthal, is that of a dim-witted savage, wielding a colossal club which it uses to bash its tribe mates on the head. 20th-century pop culture is full of these depictions, and the general public all over the world has come to know the neanderthal as a monster, a subhuman, more ape than man. The reality could not be more different.
Homo neanderthalensis was in fact as human as you and I - they lived complicated lives, they created music and art, they were exceedingly intelligent, and they even interbred with us, the first Homo sapiens. That's right - it's more than likely that your DNA contains that of the neanderthals that were roaming much of the Northern Hemisphere in the Late Pleistocene Epoch. These early men and women were just that - men and women. Although they belonged to a different species to our ancestors, they were just as human as you and I, only in their own way. Obviously, there are no living, breathing neanderthals around today, but we do know they coexisted with our ancestors. So, what happened to them? Where did they all go?
Today, we will be answering these questions and more as we take an in-depth look at Homo neanderthalensis, some of our closest cousins in the hominid world. We will look at many aspects of neanderthal life as we do so - their culture, their lifestyles, their evolution, and their appearances. Join us, as we take an intriguing trip into the lives, loves and legacies of Homo neanderthalensis - the neanderthals.
0:00 Introduction
2:37 What exactly was Homo neanderthalensis?
9:39 Evolution
13:06 Coexistence
17:57 Lifestyle
31:48 Paleoenvironment
37:40 Extinction
40:21 Outro
Music by CO.AG: / @co.agmusic
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[@baarbacoa]

I think it's a stretch to assume that interbreeding indicates peaceful relations. It could just add well indicate rape occurred, possibly after intertribal warfare.

[@hyzercreek]

It WAS rape, which is why lots of Neanderthal nuclear DNA is found in the human genome, but no Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA has ever been found. All our Neanderthal DNA came from males and none from females. That means Neanderthal males were raping human females. Neanderthals were NOT humans, the last common ancestor was 450,000 years ago but humans only evolved 200,000 years ago. This video is bullocks

[@tosehoed123]

Thank you

[@Edvinas97]

probably was mix of both

[@theofficialken1755]

#Neanderthalmetoo

[@kathybrem880]

I don’t know why you’d think their clothing was poorly made. I’m sure it would have been finely crafted. They were not stupid . To survive in such a difficult environment it would have been necessary

[@hyzercreek]

Bears survived in such a difficult environment. Your point is illogical.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

​@@hyzercreek bears had a million more years of evolution to help them. The Neanderthal didn't. It's your point that's illogical, as well as a non sequitur.

[@hyzercreek]

@@MaryAnnNytowl Bears had 60 million years to evolve, not 1 million, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that you said that Neanderthals were intelligent because they have a harsh environment, when nemotodes survive that same environment with an IQ of 0.00000001 and bacteria are even dumber

[@KINGandWINNER]

why would they need clothes the indians in the jungle don't wear clothes because it was Christianity that shamed naked people and made the wear clothes. Besides just because the Guy 2:00 doesn't have a white european facial characteristics doesn't mean he was some sort of cave man. That's beng racist.

[@jodysams7915]

Give it up there homo sapiens

[@Robert-vm8vw]

Super interesting! Can't wait for the next video!!

[@jaredeckify]

Good content my man, keep it up. I'm just commenting so youtube recommends you to more people.

[@HappyLeigh]

Love your videos. Keep up the great work! 🤩

[@stefanthorpenberg887]

I don’t think sapiens technology was more ”advanced”. Neanderthals were hunting big animals like mammoths and bison. To use tiny flake tools, shooting with bow and arrow at huge thick skinned animals would not take them down. When climate changed, other animals arrived together with sapiens who used different tools to hunt them.

[@buttercxpdraws8101]

Agreed. Like much of evolution it’s not a question of being innately better or more advanced, but a question of being better suited to the environment in which the organism exists, and this environment is changeable therefore what is more or less advanced is changeable too.

[@nob1130]

And it was advantageous for sapiens to hunt the relatively small Neanderthals witch arrows, and took their women!

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

​@@nob1130Neanderthals weren't even close to "relatively small" compared to us, if that's what you meant. And there's evidence, if I recall the recent papers on genetic studies correctly, that the interbreeding was happening both directions, between _h_ Neanderthal males & _h_ Sapiens females as well as between N females & S males.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

​@@nob1130 oh, and it'd be "and take" to match the tense of the rest of your sentence. 😉

[@nomadpurple6154]

@@MaryAnnNytowl However male Neanderthals appear to have had genetics which could produce an immune response in pregnant homo sapiens, likely making them miscarry the male children, hence the 'missing' Neanderthal DNA from modern humans Y chromosome.

[@LostAncients]

I am really enjoying your videos on our ancestors. I was excited to see a new video up this morning!! Thanks for putting in the time and effort into researching and sharing your findings into our history. This is one field that I find very interesting, and is one of the coolest exhibits to visit at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in my opinion.

[@666toysoldier]

I remember a school janitor who looked like he stepped out of the pages of a NatGeo article about Neanderthals.

[@detgrsketestamente3821]

Outstanding video. Thank you brother...

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

When OUR species has been around on the planet as long as theirs was, then we can begin feeling smug. Until then, we're the baby of the family, and haven't been around long enough to deserve to feel smug. And who knows, by then, we could've diverged into multiple species and no longer be _this_ species of human.

[@MP-wg8pd]

Wait, why would you think they couldn't talk? Their voice box was in a different place, making their voices higher, but there was no reason they couldn't speak.

[@hyzercreek]

They had no chin, no place to anchor the fine lower lip muscles required for detailed speech.

[@hyzercreek]

First came primitive speech. Grunts and spits. The people with better lower lip control and bigger chins for lower-lip muscle insertion would be favored, and humans would evolve the prominent chin from this. People started talking and evolved a chin for improvement of speech, and a bigger frontal cortex to process speech. Neanderthals had primitive speech not developed at all, and small frontal lobe, and little or no chin.

[@EverythingInMyBrain]

@@hyzercreekThis is assuming quite a bit. The lack of a chin may mean they lacked speech identical to ours, but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t speak or didn’t have language. They very well may have been capable of phonemes that we are incapable of making. The harsh environment, tool culture, art, and evidence of coordinated hunting tactics indicates complex communication.

[@hyzercreek]

@@EverythingInMyBrain Polar bears live in a harsh environment. Ants have complex communication. You have zero evidence they could speak.

[@williamberven-ph5ig]

They didn't lack a chin. They had what we now call a weak chin. With all we've learned in the past few decades, I'm left believing they really weren't all that different from Homosapiens. I wouldn't be surprised if, as more is learned, their "separate species" status is abandoned. The fact we mated and at least some of their offspring could successfully mate makes it hard to believe we were that different.

[@SteveC38]

Nicely Done.

[@cellgrrl]

My sister had her DNA tested and what it told her is that she had 3% Neanderthal. I assume I am nearly the same. I think that is a bit higher than normal but found in our family ancestry we are primarily from the Neanderthal regions of Germany, Switzerland, and France with some small contributions from Ireland and England. Makes me wonder if that explains my sister's results.

[@yargeht]

Which DNA test did she do? That’s pretty neat, my was very detailed but didn’t included information like that!

[@cellgrrl]

@@yargeht She used 23 and Me, about 3-4 years ago.

[@julieblair168]

My daughters and my own are just under 5%. I am 1/2 Canadian First Nation. I was told Asia and N.America are two continents where a lot of Neanderthals settled and are usually a higher % than most.. I just thought you might be interested.

[@cellgrrl]

@@julieblair168 Thanks! That's very interesting. I know it could be settled if I would just get a DNA test, but I am hesitant about doing so.

[@blackbiker1961]

This is not unusual for white peoples neanderthals we’re your ancestors, your are the only race of people on the planet to carry such.

[@mmh234]

I appreciate your videos

[@robertweldon7909]

5/4/2023 I'm watching this video with some interest. I like the matter of fact approach to the subject, even though much of the information can only speculative. Archeology can never explain what is being conveyed here. Even so, Giving the Neanderthal people something more than brute existence is refreshing. Good job. ;-)

[@charlessarver1637]

Great video

[@rainermalia4151]

The first time you bring in the Denisovan; I thought that drawing was of the newly found Dragon Man?

[@todaywefly4370]

Plays a bit better at 1.25 speed.

[@ZeoViolet]

18:40 You are describing Creb's body, from _Clan of the Cave Bear._ Author's Jean Auel. That woman studied those archeological sites, and wove a story around what she learned. Now, some science has marched on since that book, but it is still an old favorite of mine. If only the last two books in the series hadn't' sucked so much.

[@jeffcool9769]

An encounter between species may have been like my fathers reaction to hippies moving in down the road...he liked the girls but thought the guys were worthless....mushrooms might be hallucigenic but yummy. Thanks for your work, it's fun to learn.

[@diocletian607]

The men were enslaved or killed. The women kept around as breeders. Its been the human way since the beginning. Why should it have been any different then.

[@insomniac598]

You sound like Mightmind 😮😂 love these vids btw

[@daf631]

I find it amazing that in all the theories and speculative narratives I've heard, including this one, nobody has ever wondered if the gestation period might have been longer for Neanderthals. It's only a guess, just like this video's attempt to narrate that Neanderthals life cycle was similar to modern humans. That's far more conclusion that the limited amount of Neanderthal skeletal parts could ever render. But if one were to apply fractoral math to even one extended month of gestation for the Neanderthals it would take a mere couple dozen generations for Him Sapiens to overwhelm the Neanderthal population. It seems a lot more plausible than some of the speculation that's been floated over the years of outcompeting.

[@killgoretrout9000]

It could be but I doubt it would be significantly longer simply because the gestation period of gorillas (8 1/2 months) and chimpanzees (8 months) is close to our own so I could see neanderthals having a slightly longer gestation of around 10 months I doubt it would be significantly longer like the 18-22 months of an elephant's gestation.

[@daf631]

@@killgoretrout9000 even a couple of extra weeks over the course of 100,000 years makes a significant dent in population difference. While a longer gestation cycle would not be a sole factor in Neanderthal extinction, it most certainly would be one of many factors when combined that contributed to it.

[@killgoretrout9000]

@@daf631 OTH if neanderthal reached sexual maturity a year earlier that advantage would've been wiped out. I'd put more stock in neanderthals being larger ergo having a higher caloric requirement on average as being a bigger factor than any slight differences in reproduction. My guess is that the biggest factor was sapiens being more gracile which likely meant they were physically weaker but with better fine motor control making them the superior tool maker. Tool making and use is what humans are about.

[@daf631]

@@killgoretrout9000 well if ifs and an were pots and pans the world would be a kitchen. Highly unlikely that a larger brain which the Neanderthals had, reaches any kind of maturity quicker than Homo Sapien. You can go with your theory, and I'll stick with my thoughts. But since neither one of us were there, your dismissal of my mere question and your theoretic narrative tells me your just here to argue and gaslight. You don't know anymore than anyone else from an overall collection of Neanderthal in total that wouldn't fill a paper shopping bag.

[@anndriggers6660]

Good video

[@joshshepherd5734]

Also about 70k years ago, modern humans were almost wiped and that event had to really impact any other humanlike species around at that time

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Citation, please.

[@ashcarter72]

There were a lot of factors that led to the integration of Neanderthal into the homo sapian populations it was a mixture of low genetic diversity and an attraction to homo sapians. Another factor was that our bodies are better suited for warming climate and we are able to throw spears with a great deal of speed and force which Neanderthals were not as well suited for

[@nomandad2000]

The last Wrangel Island mammoths lasted until about 1650 BC

[@candidone8544]

Heed how often the word "may" is used. That's the reality of how pervasively extrapolation plays a role in a field of study with so drastically few samples of any of their materials. Admittedly, it's hard to be wrong about a field of study in which accuracy lacks enough substance to be more than an aspiration. All of these stories are the state of the art, where art draws its virtue in the eyes of the beholder. To the extent that prehistory can be assessed scientifically, only theory and hypothesis pertain. This comment isn't intended to disparage efforts to understand known unknowns, it's mainly to preserve the curiosity of such scientific pursuits. We'll never have enough evidence for any of the myriad myths, like this story, which means that guesstimations and stories will have to suffice and perhaps provoke some folks to keep looking. Science is the pursuit of knowledge, not about dwelling on certainty.

[@johnshields6852]

They were much wiser than we give the credit for, they lived in harmony with nature more like other animals, it must've been an amazing sight to see.

[@frankweathersbee2553]

They were on earth longer than us modern humans.

[@chickuna7854]

What a coincidence "Homo Neandrethalensis" was my nickname in highschool

[@lesliesylvan]

A+++++ Thank you ~

[@DelbertOsborne-ie7fp]

There have been speculation that we humans may have brought about their demise.If so, why haven't archeologist and paleontologists ever found remains of the two species that showed signs of being attacked by another species?

[@kevinwaters5872]

McNeanderthal was the biggest restaurant chain in the inhabited world at that time. “Would you like lark’s tongue with that?” has been found scratched on walls in Iberian caves.

[@petarjovovic5737]

Prevod?

[@Turkish_Model__1]

Looks very cold. Only furs?

[@danny.math-tutor]

מעניין

[@ajaxgrac6547]

4:36 is Margorie Taylor Greene

[@jeremiahdavis6012]

if it is possible to bring back a creature from extinction, why not this one?

[@DS9TREK]

Because in reality it isn't possible. Like, when they say they'll bring back wooly mammoths they really mean they'll isolate the gene that made them hairy and put it in an elephant embryo to produce a hairy elephant. But it'll still be an elephant. Same as when they created glow-in-the-dark mice by putting in a gene from jellyfish, it was still a mouse, not a jellyfish.

[@diocletian607]

Wrong, it would be a jellymouse duh.

[@user-se2xm5yp6u]

No need, my cousin is here

[@kadiratl8464]

yorumlarım neden siliniyor!!??

[@DelbertOsborne-ie7fp]

A split sounds to easy and safe.

[@woodygilson3465]

Neanderthals _are_ human. At 17:45 to 17:55, you said "humans" outlasted the Neanderthals. I'm sure you meant Homo sapiens, but you might want to correct that.

[@hyzercreek]

Neanderthals were NOT humans, the last common ancestor was 450,000 years ago but humans only evolved 200,000 years ago.

[@woodygilson3465]

@@hyzercreek There are currently somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 recognized species of humans. Seems you've got some reading to catch up on. 😆

[@hyzercreek]

@@woodygilson3465 There is one species of human today, and one only. Seems you've been reading too many Bunk Bullocks books.

[@woodygilson3465]

@@hyzercreek Well, yes, obviously there's only one species of humans alive today. Who said otherwise?

[@hyzercreek]

@@woodygilson3465 You just did.

[@robinwhitman8840]

How many years must pass until no-one has any Neanderthal blood in them Until then I would say they aren't extinct

[@diocletian607]

Until humanity figures out generic engineering and modification. From what they say the neanthethal genes are the possible source of many genetic diseases for humans.

[@normanhowe4938]

just think of every extinct species. there was always only one left of each. i wonder if they realized it or not.

[@jeffcool9769]

What if they were all wild looking, but had voices like Mike Tyson? Run away, run away....

[@johnstojanowski8126]

Neanderthals went extinct for the same reason that the megafauna that they hunted also became extinct. The reason is that they both evolved in a lower surface gravity environment; their body structure is the result of that. Surface gravity can change when large surface mass on the Earth moves to high latitude as it did during the Ice Age(s) when ocean water transferred to polar regions. This is based upon the ‘Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum’ which applies when large surface mass on a rotating body moves closer to its spin axis which obviously occurred when ocean water transferred to polar regions. This caused the Earth’s core elements to move off-center resulting in a gravitational gradient around the globe. Surface gravity lowered on part of the globe in the Europe/ Eurasia longitudinal region when Neanderthals existed. It increased in that region approximately 60-40 thousand years ago when polar ice rapidly melted during Heinrich Event H4 resulting in the water movingto lower latitude and away from the Earth’s axis causing and increase in surface gravity in the mentioned region and the extinction of not only the Neanderthals but also the Australian megafauna which were in the same longitudinal region. This is explained in my book ‘Ice Age Extinctions, A New Theory.’

[@darrinwebber4077]

I've watched other paleoanthropology videos. Some have expressed that Neanderthals matured faster...just like Heidelbergensis, Erectus and probably Denisovans...than Sapiens matured.

[@mukhumor]

If their clothing was badly made they would have suffered hypothermia and frost bite. There is no reason to suppose their clothing was any less sophisticated than Inuit. They may have died out because of Sapiens love of genocide.

[@Madmun357]

I don't think its a stretch to thing some of them suffered hypothermia and frostbite.

[@mukhumor]

@@Madmun357 In 350,000 years it's a fair guess, but they would not have survived for 350,000 years if they weren't getting some of the basics right.

[@Kevin-iv3lv]

Did we kill them off or breed them out?

[@morganbonczek6428]

Homo denisova is not the proper name for Denisovans at this time, as they have not been formally described yet, being known only from DNA evidence and about 4 small bone samples, one of which was a Neanderthal/Denisovan hybrid.

[@Rhaenarys]

It's exactly what they're known as. They aren't named after a description of how they look any more than Neanderthals are. They are named because of where they were found. And we have almost the entire genetic sequence of them. We may not know what they look like, and only a few bones, which actually a lot, but we def know they were a different sub species than us and can be named.

[@morganbonczek6428]

@@Rhaenarys I think you may be confused. Of course the Denisovans were real. DNA and the handful of bones leaves no doubt about that. We call them Denisovans. Calling them Homo denisova is a scientific name and since they have not been formally described scientifically the scientific name Homo denisova is inaccurate. For example, we call ourselves humans. Science has formally described what our species is and have given us the scientific name Homo sapiens. Until Denisovans have been formally described, the species Homo denisova is not valid, but that doesn't mean that they weren't real

[@drewdavis3825]

@@Rhaenarys They are not formally named “Homo Denisova” they are only known as Denisovans.

[@Rhaenarys]

@@drewdavis3825 ok then we should just keep calling it that one species we haven't named even though we literally have a name for it based on the location found...like neanderthals...

[@morganbonczek6428]

@@Rhaenarys Right. Until science formally names them Homo denisova or whatever scientific name they decide to give that species, they should be referred to what everyone is already calling them which is Denisovans. The narrator repeatedly called them Homo denisova, which as of this moment, is not a thing yet. My entire point is that if someone is doing a video that is relaying facts about something, they should have those facts be accurate, which is something I think everyone can agree on. Homo denisova is incorrect. If I were making a video that I wanted to be accurate for my audience, I would definitely want to know if I’ve made factual errors so that I can do better.

[@MrCakocalypse]

They wasnt different from us, they had a brain and life like we do and had same dreams like we have. Their dissapearing we could explain in a religious way.

[@gescheharm5881]

Homo sapiens was still black-skinned, when they moved into the Neandertal regions. Taller may be, but not white (yet)

[@hyzercreek]

And they had straight hair. The wooly-hair trait stayed in Africa.

[@SithStudy]

they would not have been "black" in a modern sense.

[@rusty_shacklford]

Neanderthal’s are my favorite ancestors of ours. They could have passed for “modern” humans today.

[@aaronlong7482]

Not ancestors, more like cousins. We didnt descend from neanderthals

[@hyzercreek]

And they would never, EVER, pass for modern humans. They look as different as horses and donkeys. They are a different species.

[@Antioc87]

idk man that skull looks way different even the teeth of neanderthals and denisvons something is off

[@ag6907]

When I think of ape like human looking animaIs I don't think about Neanderthals.

[@osama-xm7gw]

❤

[@joshshepherd5734]

Do we know if Neanderthals domesticated any types of animals?

[@jeffroberts930]

I think Neanderthals were already extinct by the time the first animal was domesticated.

[@kathybrem880]

We don’t know

[@visionentertainment8006]

Imagine being better adapted to a certain environment, but perishing as species anyway.🤦🏾‍♂️

[@jerrywatt6813]

They survived for 200,000 years in harsh environments think about THAT !

[@butterflyladeda1080]

🤔

[@williamberven-ph5ig]

Another possible factor which might have eventually led to extinction is, if correct, is the small numbers in each clan. Could generations if interbreeding weakened the lines to the point of infertility?

[@williamberven-ph5ig]

I meant inbreeding.

[@robinwhitman8840]

2.4 for me

[@robinwhitman8840]

23 and me🌏🐳🐝🐞

[@julielabrouste6344]

22:55 How did they "boil" food if they didn't have containers appropriate for boiling, like those made with pottery, let alone with metal which they were without. I'm aware of boiling things by digging a hole, filling it with water, and then heating stones via fire, which they'd then put into that water. However, surely they didn't use that inefficient method all the time, and I don't think it wouldn't have worked very well for broths, soups and stews, as it would mix with the dirt in the whole.

[@abhijitganguly5339]

​@@henchy3rd yes it works

[@BlueBonnie764]

🤔They called it "the Stone age" cuz everything is made with stone, lots of hard work!!

[@hyzercreek]

@@henchy3rd Right. Because leaves and bark hold boiling water. Is it soup yet?

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

​@@hyzercreek yes, you can definitely make containers out of those materials. How the hell do you think the Natice Americans did it when they only smelted for things like jewelry making and such? It's most often done with leather bags, but containers can definitely be made with some types of large leaves and some types of bark. They aren't talking about your back yard oak tree, genius. 😂 You seem to be making just factually incorrect statements on multiple comments. Perhaps do just the teensiest bit of research before making statements so glaringly false that they make you look absurdly ignorant. Like top-left of the Dunning Kruger chart level of absurdly ignorant, in fact. You're embarrassing the rest of humanity.

[@ZeoViolet]

Hide stretched between four holders and bending in the middle could be filled with water, meat, and vegetables over a fire. The water would seep a little through the hide, and as long as the flames of the fire don't get higher than the skin pot, the seeping would make sure the hide would be too wet to burn.

[@buggerit]

if we have a percentage of their dna they are our ancestots. i am polish. stocky build short legs and arms and barrel chested. you have described me. 5 foot 8 inches tall. we are one species now

[@motorhomemac]

Some of us just need but look in the mirror.

[@brianSalem541]

They are also our ancestors!

[@aripiispanen9349]

♪♫♥Very Interesting !

[@kisho2679]

Why it's not possible to consider, that different humanoid species appeared independently in different locations of the earth, as environmental conditions would support (instead of all species originating only from one spot in Africa)?

[@TmanRock9]

No because populations evolve together. For these other species to be consider apart of the human genus they also must come from the exact same place other human species did. It works this way with all closes. For example all mammals come from the same species and therefor the same location.

[@mikeymusk]

I think all the Neanderthal got back in their space ships and went home

[@user-se2xm5yp6u]

Not so. My cousin is still here

[@PeteLewisWoodwork]

27 minutes 57 seconds: That one's wearing a watch...! And how do you know they created music when you're not giving evidence of it?

[@paulpierce2051]

The denesovians thought the sapians would be easer to manage so they got the sapians to blame the neanderthals for themselves not being able to survive. The sapians rioted all the time and the densovians forced the neanderthals to give their food to the sapians. The whole time the neanderthals were forced to watch their cave are painted over by neanderthals and their children’s food stolen for the sapians. The neanderthals never stood up to the exploitation and the went extinct just how the densovians planned it.

[@williamberven-ph5ig]

I've never quite understood how they were different enough from Homo Sapians to be considered another species. I also don't necessarily agree that we were such a superior species. They survived over 300 k years. Could it be that we were more successful at reproduction and forming large groups, eventually overwhelming their numbers? Anyway, until we've survived another 200 k years. I think we might withhold judgment

[@user-se2xm5yp6u]

Talking about my cousin again.

[@ninja250r2008]

This might sound dumb.. but when I think of Neanderthals I always think of Vikings. 🪓⚔️

[@hyzercreek]

It IS dumb

[@Harshharsh111]

If we carry them in our DNA, this makes ancestors rather than saying they are cousins.

[@laara1426]

We had a joke in my family; why do all the men in tne family have mustaches? In honor of grandmother ! When I told my sisters I was going to have my DNA tested and we would have answer, they were not amused . I tested in the 92nd percentile for Neanderthal DNA .

[@Mdebacle]

The DNA of Neanderthals and Denisovans was 15-16ths human and 1-16th chimpanzee. The ape-men were not human ancestors. They were the result of human-ape hybridization.

[@heh9392]

It's weird as the Neanderthals very much look like some Finnish peoples faces

[@user-se2xm5yp6u]

And some of them are fatish

[@abhijitganguly5339]

may be there was some epidemic to which our forefathers were better immuned ,again natural selection worked silently but decisively

[@Rhaenarys]

Because immunity doesn't exactly work like that. You'd expect to find at least some homo sapiens with signs of disease as well, as they wouldn't have been able to build immunity.

[@mawage666]

I know a couple living breathing Neanderthals

[@user-se2xm5yp6u]

Have you met my cousin ?

[@lovincrypto9225]

You’re a picture of Neanderthals is a little exaggerated Pablo, who won the Nobel prize in anthropology for his DNA evidence said it brilliantly Neanderthals had a 300,000 year Headstart on Homo sapiens, but they never seemed to be able to catch up their art. The music was much more primitive than ours Never caught up in 300,000 years Headstart he said this last year and from all my readings he was correct so they were more primitive than we are. The spears were more primitive than ours. They never accomplish being able to use projectile weapons to keep themselves safe they were big and strong, and they ran right up to the animal and killed them that way, their art was nice sophisticated as were the tools. They were not knuckle dragging beast, but they were not as intelligent as Homo sapiens and to infer that they were is misleading.

[@GenuinelyCurious120]

Do you think they were really called "flatheads" by homo sapiens? Lol

[@keganjackson7609]

You mean you lol 😂 neat view bye ✌️

[@FreeThinking999]

You could probably find a skilled actor at your local college who would be willing to do the narration. PLEASE get a skilled speaker to narrate, someone who knows the importance of such vocal dynamics as CHANGES IN RYTHEM, modulation, and RANGE. Please respect your listeners by not subjecting them to this type of dull-droning vocal horror. It is important that your narrator is a skilled performer.

[@SithStudy]

🤨ur insane, this narration is great .

[@666Buzzsaw]

Just relax. Nothing wrong with the narration, if you’re too precious to put up with it then you’re free to find a different video to watch.

[@TheHorrorsPersistButSoDoI]

1.25x

[@helenhunter4540]

I think of Neanderthal women and I think they're smart. They "even" interbred with us? Please!

[@hyzercreek]

No they didn't!!! All Neanderthal DNA in our genome came from male Neanderthals, and none from females, because we never EVER find mitochondrial DNA from Neanderthals. No female DNA from Neanderthals.

[@michaelharrison6976]

They were more intune with there environments than we could ever be.. they loved, the laughed, they grieved!!

[@kevinwaters5872]

Speculation is just that. The facts are really few and far between. Just saying.

[@canadianking77]

The Neanderthal is still around, you still see many of the characteristics in Europeans. The “they faded” off is false, that 2% on Asian and European is definitely low

[@DrumRoody]

Neanderthals put the sapian in homosapian

[@sarwatmandkhan141]

Yap climate change could be a wise reason f distinction of Neanderthal and mind it same reason would end today's human beings, means us. Cutting off trees, spoiling natural habitat/jungle's and poluting sea and rivers would be the main cause of vanishing even life of all the living creatures still alive on earth, mountains and sea. None other than we, today's humans are bringing "End Of Days" ourselves. Alas, I wish if we could stop so called modernisation and try to live in natural habitat, which is the only way to escape from subsecuences described supra.

[@TmanRock9]

Living like we did in our natural habitat would mean the deaths of untold billions. I don’t think killing 75% of humanity is a good alternative.

[@kadiratl8464]

ekran alıntısı almaya devam

[@kevinb9830]

human narration is always better

[@esquare807]

Were there any trans 😮

[@kadiratl8464]

siz silin cevab vermek yerine

[@DelbertOsborne-ie7fp]

To say there was a split is a lazy explanation consisting of speculation. There is no evidence of this.

[@murraygable9217]

Narrated by a computer. Too bad

[@lotklear1379]

This fabulous vid must have taken many hours. Thank you. I do wish you'd have depicted the neanderthals a little more accurately, however. It is unlikely neanderthals were hairless as are sapiens. Every other primate is covered in thick hair, neanderthals were almost certainly thick-haired for cold adaptations. Further neanderthals were extremely muscular. Neanderthals most likely were similar to chimps in appearance. Hairy, immensely strong, huge eyes, and a more pronounced facial shape.

[@Hiforest]

You're wrong. It was previously believed that neanderthals were hairy but we now know (thanks to DNA) that they weren't. We are both decendant from the same branch who had already lost their fur.

[@Hiforest]

The vast majority of what I learned at school about neanderthals has been disproven. Humans thinking they are superior was probably to blame for neaderthals being described as primative, Ape like creatures - the evidence doesn't support that idea so it's now been re-evaluated more accurately.

[@lotklear1379]

@@Hiforest this is a topic i find interesting. Thanks for responding. Can you cite your assertions regarding neanderthal "hairiness"? I cannot find any evidence to back your claim. Please help. I really want to know more about this topic. Thanks

[@Hiforest]

@lotklear literally anything written about neanderthals in ages. Just Google it. It's very well documented so I'm surprised you've not found anything yourself.

[@TmanRock9]

@@lotklear1379 Neaderthals weren’t very hairy compared to Homo sapiens, since the adaptations for bipedalism occurred before their last common ancestor and they also sweat. Sweat and fur was a bad combinations for cold environments, they likely had fur clothes and they had fire to stay warm. They looked much closer to modern humans according to anatomy and genetics, Neaderthals were 99.7% identical to modern humans which is very close. You can find this on the neaderthal genome sequencing project.

[@MarcLombart]

Seems like a great video, but due to that unnecessary useless distracting music, I can't watch this.

[@Palmieres]

You can turn down the volume and turn on subtitles. The narrator's voice is much louder than the background music and it becomes easy to ignore the latter.

[@djspatriqt2290]

Greetings, from the Foothills of the Ozarks of Arkansas. My DNA test says I have 3% Neanderthal DNA in my genes.

[@edwardshafer1729]

AI

[@kimclay7559]

Promo sm 🤭

[@neilevan7870]

Eurasians have 1-4% Neanderthal DNA. East Asians and oceanic peoples have highest rates. Video references just one estimate, but consensus is anywhere from 1-4%.

[@candidone8544]

Consensus of guesstimations. In-laws are always suspect. After that, humans are weird anyway.

[@TmanRock9]

⁠@@candidone8544these are based off of genetic evidence. The neaderthal and human genomes have both been sequenced.

[@fenrir2616]

Nope, they were apes with red eyes and ate humans. I read this so its true. NtSrs lol

[@henryknox1186]

They smoked weed and drank crown royal all day.