The Differences Between Neanderthals and Humans

People often don't quite understand how Neanderthals were different, or what they did except from have big foreheads. Were they that different from us, given they reproduced with us and seem to have been ill-fated equals? I shed some light on the situation, without a clear conclusion of course, as it's for you to decide based on the analysed evidence and facts.
#Neanderthal #Evolution #Paleohistory

[@urthtvbyjess]

when you're a 13-year-old English King watching about Neanderthals and Humans in The Tower of London

[@ABAlphaBeta]

sweet prince ;(

[@urthtvbyjess]

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[@billysanpidro]

I'm surprised the Lord Protector lets you browse the Internet. Pray tell me, how did you get the wifi password?

[@urthtvbyjess]

@@billysanpidro He just gave it to me and said this is the only connection I can get from the outside world so yeah

[@urthtvbyjess]

@@billysanpidro And trust me, the only good thing other than this is teasing my younger brother, Richard about his dead wife, yes, he had a wife too sad she died at 8 but I keep saying "Richard and Anne, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G" He laughs most of the time but he can get upset and he sometimes tries to look around for her even though she's buried somewhere else

[@simonster-9094]

Neanderthals aren't extinct, some of them went to my high school.

[@seasea7212]

that's an insult >:( neanderthals had honor!

[@dacionmichaelinnaidoo4250]

@@seasea7212 king infinithor is right if Neanderthals existed, they most probably existed in the great civilizations, i would say that the irish are the only Neanderthals of all europeans because of their rich celtic history..

[@cricketcricket9749]

Lol!

[@nthavotelcam4112]

Dacion michaelin Naidoo All humans outside of Africa have Neanderthal DNA not just the Irish or Celts.

[@focusonyourself7932]

They didn’t have black in them meaning pure

[@ilocosmetro]

Will we get samples of Neanderthal vocalizations?

[@kyarimaresuki]

I haven't been convinced by the attempts I've heard in the past, but it's always interesting to hear what is proposed.

[@angeloreyes1951]

Beowulf in proto-ooga-booga

[@norielsylvire4097]

Not in the near future. We still don't know how their vocal apparatus looked like and worked, so we don't know what sounds they were capable of producing, and even if we knew what sounds they could produce we can't know how their languages sounded like. When we trace back languages for about 10 000 years ago or more, we use data available to us now, like writings and related languages that are still in use, and we use that information to infer how an older version of the language sounded like. However there's no living neanderthal language for now, so we can't know for sure. Supposing they had a language similar to the ones sapiens can produce, there could have been some borrowing of words into proto-indo-european or even the precursor of euskera, but this falls completely in the realm of speculation.

[@TheKnight-zf5eb]

Have you ever watched the following video? It's an attempt to make their sounds - and the guy became a meme. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWabanZ3qpxmi68

[@sickjuicysjamshack3580]

Japan has robots that can replicate the voice by pushing air through mechanical throats, tongues, lips, etc. If we can recreate a realistic replica of the soft tissues and account for their greater chest volume and skeletal structure, maybe

[@lunzy6492]

Neanderthals people couldn’t pronunce fricative consonants for the reason of their shape of Hyoid bone, but they pronunce very well plosive consonants

[@thesecretlibrary890]

@@NightDoge It's okay, you can share.

Everything is out now

[@temporaryexistence1974]

If I did my glosolalia, you would have idea about neanderthal language xD

[@sparshjohri1109]

@John Wack Fricatives are the s sounds, the f sounds, the sh sounds, the h sounds, and so on. Plosives are the p sounds, the t sounds, the k sounds, and so on.

[@MS-yx3dr]

You got sample voices you can share?😂😂😂

[@Raycheetah]

There was a neanderthal burial which appeared to include red ochre sprinkled on the cadaver, which might have been a way to restore some semblance of life, or might have had some other sociocultural significance. ='[.]'=

[@markward3981]

Yes , I think there is still some stereotype and heavy unfair bias when interpreting the information on Neaderthals.

[@tertommy]

It was seasoning, yum.

[@plutothetutor1660]

This is my favourite channel now. Never stop the videos i beg.

[@bestsimplejourney7124]

I posted a comment and it got deleted immediately because I said this was a crock of shi! This whole this is supposed to be based on a fragment of bone. Lol. What a joke. Bones don’t even last 10 years.... not to mention thousands. He is delusional. Get him a doctor. This called evolution. And all humans come from Africa. Get over it.

[@Dionaea_floridensis]

Your voice is so gentle and soothing

[@albertogarcia305]

Guy sounds like some kinda moron. He sounds so soft and unsure and even uninterested in everything he's saying like he's reading off a wiki article. Say it with your chest man. And stop with all the pauses.

[@albertogarcia305]

@Ju Ju at least he's got that going for him

[@hypercumstone44]

@@albertogarcia305 I think he’s just not using a script and/or doesn’t notice that he talks pretty quiet

[@albertogarcia305]

@@hypercumstone44 WELL IT PISSES ME OFF

[@og-greenmachine8623]

Get his number...

[@randomdude8171]

Could you put your sources in the description? I would love to read more about Neanderthals

[@marcinha1973]

Good comment/inquiry.

[@pedroalitovar6624]

Still waiting.

[@og-greenmachine8623]

HERE YA GO!😃 m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIbPhWmdj75-n8U

[@texanfilms]

These are some good recent books that don’t talk about them like they’re basically hairless apes the way this KZbin guy does. “The Smart Neanderthals” (Clive Finlayson) “Kindred” (Rebecca Wragg Sykes)

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

Where do you get the idea that they fought bare handed? Almost all scholars agree that they used short thrusting spears, heck even the oldest wooden weapon ever found was a wooden spear in Germany pre-human era... Also there’s a find of a cave (I can’t remember where) that had a pile of stones in a semi-circle that pre dates human arrival. Also even though pitch can be made using basic ingredients, it’s a complex process that makes little for a lot of work, meaning they may have had a more efficient system of making it then even we have today. Also they used red paint, which we’ve found evidence for in Spain. Also Homo Heidelbergensis is the most commonly accepted common ancestor, with the two groups splitting likely 400,000 years ago plus or minus about 1,000 or more years (likely more, 400,000 is a low estimate, but likely not any more that 500,000 in my opinion) Also no there was not 50 humans at one point, closer to a few thousand according to the articles talking about the event your referring too, 50 would’ve been likely well past the point of return for our species, as that’s less then a single tribe of people, and there’s is no way we wouldn’t get severe inbreeding problems at that point...

[@ABAlphaBeta]

They think it's possible, they're not sure

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

ABAlphaBeta ps I edited some more points I’d like to make of your video, please don’t take it as an attack, I like that you made this video, just feel that some points needed to be cleared up...

[@falcomalko5938]

phys.org/news/2018-06-neanderthals-bands-speared-prey.amp www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2019-01-neanderthal-spears-distance.amp onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/evan.1002 We’ve had definite proof of Neanderthal spear use for over a decades, what source told you otherwise?

[@MetallenVikingr]

@@falcomalko5938 Speaking as a neanderthal the idea that we didnt pulverize our food with our bare hands before promptly eating it on the spot is nothing but lies and slander. Seriously though the idea that neanderthals football tackled their prey before beating the snot out of them seems very unrealistic and comical. Gangs of roving neanderthals laying the smackdown on sabertooth cats and mammoths.

[@falcomalko5938]

@@MetallenVikingr Pretty hot not ngl

[@kyarimaresuki]

Humans and Neanderthals mated and indeed did have fertile offspring but it's thought that human females weren't compatible with male Neanderthals, and male hybrids may have been miscarried. No neanderthal Y chromosome has been observed in a hybrid.

[@Motofanable]

I think that the problem was mechanical not genetical.

[@hulking_presence]

@@Motofanable just say "small penises"

[@joynelbonetdelgado4952]

@@hulking_presence 😆

[@trickydick2909]

@@Motofanable Yes, a Homo Sapiens female giving birth to a hybrid child would likely die in childbirth, along with the baby, due to the larger cranium size.

[@Motofanable]

@@trickydick2909 bingo

[@SomasAcademy]

Worth noting that even if Neanderthals did casually practice cannibalism, it wouldn't necessarily be part of a biological difference between them and us - after all, there have been many Homo sapiens cultures throughout history with no taboo against cannibalism.

[@ABAlphaBeta]

As I said in the video, probably rare and a mental or cultural difference

[@darklazerx7913]

In humans it's usually a religious thing and not done casually.

[@Cornishcro]

​@@darklazerx7913religious? Thats interesting!!! (Not being sarcastic) Most times in North America, it was due to survival. Either eat the dead, or starve & freeze in the brutal winters

[@MY_CONDOLENCEZ]

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[@Rin-ir9bu]

you sound like you're from the 18th century, did you grow up in a mansion all your life?

[@Sawrattan]

Nah he just sounds normal/standard and the rest of us talk like TV trash :)

[@Sawrattan]

@ yes, it also reminds me of American French (both Canada and USA) which shares that loud nasal twang of American English. But now in England it is the reverse, people are speaking more and more like Americans... especially in ebonics (via Caribbean immigrants) which has spread throughout the UK into all communities.

[@virglibrsaglove]

I love his voice. Educated, soft, gentle, patient. I feel relaxed and at home listening to him.

[@virglibrsaglove]

@Lawrence Rummerfield Thank you. I'm glad someone said it!

[@nannerz1994]

You have such a calming voice and it's really interesting material! Subscribed!

[@SaurophaganaxSRG]

I've been watching your videos lately and they are top quality content man, really interesting, and I love everything about accurate paleontology/antropology so please keep it up.

[@mitchellskene8176]

The whole extinction date is still a mystery. They say Neanderthals died out around 39,000 years ago, but only base that off of European dates, it is fully acknowledged that Neanderthals could have survived longer in Siberia. It is my understanding that only the Neanderthals in the northern reaches of their range, were hyper carnivores. The majority of the population/those in coastal areas had a more varied diet. I happen to think that Neanderthals did have language, even if we couldn't speak it, and could be as culturally complex as Homo sapiens were at the time.

[@internetexplorer8588]

Damn, I read that as Netherlands

[@tegamingother]

i always accidentally say neanderthals than Netherlands somehow haha! its so weird.

[@reeyees50]

A lot of outdated information on this video, particularly the part where is argued that the Neanderthal was not capable of having speech and language as complex as anatomically modern humans.

[@williamaaronberryiii6538]

Nobody knows for sure!

[@ABAlphaBeta]

I didn't say thay though, I said it was almost sure they did but historical rigour absolutely forbids any certitude (and thus prehistoric theories are never outdated in any case)

[@reeyees50]

@@ABAlphaBeta do a follow up video to this

[@williamaaronberryiii6538]

@@ABAlphaBeta they are us as their DNA is surviving in humans today. Whatever they did to assemble their DNA with other humans, had to take some form of communication on both parts. They had to see each other on an equal basis.

[@og-greenmachine8623]

UPDATED m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIbPhWmdj75-n8U

[@LatentMoori]

What's the soundtrack in the background at 2:00?

[@Declan_Moriarty]

This subject is intensely fascinating. Thanks for your posts

[@harrietharlow9929]

Thank you for posting this. I am fascinated by Neanderthals, who survived conditions which might well kill many of us. I'm glad our view of them has evolved and become much more nuanced over the century-plus since Boule's analysis. These people were not dumb brutes. They were intelligent, sensitive, empathetic and well adapted to the conditions of Ice Age Europe. They may even have been Europe's first cave painters and there is a construction in Bruniquel cave in France that has been date to 175,00 years before the present. This would have taken some foresight and planning, since the construction area is over 300 feet from the entrance and fire would have had to be used to see by since no light reaches that far.

[@allhailqueenhelga]

First I wanna say I love your channel and this is a well made video. I don’t intend this as a pretentious correction or an insult- but as an anthropology major, I want to stop the spread of misinformation. I will say that a lot of the information in it was pretty out dated- for instance we’ve known for several years that Homo Sapiens have been anatomically modern for at least 200,000 years, Neanderthals used thrusting spears, they would have had high pitched voices but were almost certainly biologically capable of speech (mentally capable is another question but given their proportional brain size it’s extremely likely). As someone who practices primitive skills as well, Birch tar definitely requires complex thought- especially to come up with it on your own. We’ve found a fire hardened wood spear (the one mentioned by another commenter) that dates back like 700-800k years (don’t have time to look it up for the exact date rn but it’s in that range). Also, homo habilis is certainly not the most recent common ancestor, but I think you meant to say Heidelbergensis which IS the most likely last common ancestor, so I’ll give ya that one. On the issue of genetics- we absolutely can trace it and know for sure the timeline of the split, we’ve literally sequenced most if not all of the entire Neanderthal genome, I need to look up whether we’ve finished or not and will edit accordingly. But yeah- sequencing it is HOW we know we interbred with them, which you did mention. Also re religion and burial- we know that homo heidelbergensis buried their dead intentionally, and with possessions, often seemingly ceremonial ones (a rose quartz biface hand axe, for instance). There’s a site in Europe, I forgot the name, but it’s essentially a cave that used to have a chute leading above ground, and it seems that heidelbergensis threw their dead in this hole for a very very long time. It seems very ceremonial but we obviously can never be certain. Neanderthals almost certainly did too- and as another commenter mentioned there is some evidence of a bear cult of some sort, but it’s extremely likely they had religion- if not true “gods” per se, certainly some simple form of animism. Also side thing about tents- we have direct evidence of upper Paleolithic Homo sapiens pitching tents with skins and mammoth ivory- not sure where but I wanna say Siberia? I will also re-research that and comment again. Another commenter mentioned this as well but it was a lot more than 50 Individuals- I’ve heard 600 as a number a lot but I agree a couple thousand is more likely. Also re: interspecies violence. Very very scant evidence exists, but it does exist. We’ve found a single Neanderthal in Israel who was very clearly killed by a thrown spear. Which is a telltale calling card of Homo sapiens- but we can’t be certain it wasn’t an accident, etc. All in all awesome video and I mean no attempt to usurp or insult, just to update and correct misinformation. :) I May be wrong on a few things too, and if so please inform me so I can update the comment.

[@tartagliussy529]

Can one of those unintentional asmr channels upload this?

[@maxkronader5225]

It is absurd to assume that Neanderthals had a wide variety of stone tools, yet chose to take down megafauna bare handed. The confidence with which it is asserted that they did not even use a sharpened stick or a hand axe is completely unjustified.

[@SomasAcademy]

A few of the claims at the end of the video took me by surprise; I haven't heard about a point in history when humans were brought down to about 50 individuals by disease; could anyone send me a source about that? A bit later on, though, there are a few claims which seemed mistaken to me. First of all, the claim that Humans date back to about 100,000 BCE, and Neanderthals to 130,000 BCE; the commonly presented dates are 200,000 and 230,000, respectively, so this may have just been misspeaking. That being said, some finds push the origin of Homo sapiens sapiens back to around 315,000 BCE (give or take a few tens of millennia), namely the Jebel Irhoud remains (though whether or not these remains should be considered anatomically modern is a matter of some debate). After that comes the more questionable claim that the common ancestor of Humans and Neanderthals was Homo habilis or even an Australopithicine; I'm not sure what the creator of this video based this speculation on, but it significantly differs from scientific consensus. Our common ancestor with Neanderthals is generally acknowledged as Homo antecessor or H. rhodesiensis (if the latter is truly a distinct species, which is debated), with genetic evidence placing our divergence around 800,000 BCE. Some hypotheses instead place Homo erectus as our common ancestor, while still maintaining approximately the same date of divergence as suggested by genetic evidence. Never before have I seen it suggested that the divergence could have been earlier than this, and I find the suggestion of a divergence before Erectus highly unlikely.

[@ABAlphaBeta]

The dates were terminus post quems

[@NotTheOrigamiKiller]

Just got done watching French Vader and am now brushing up on human history

[@virtuafighter3]

Good video. At one point around 12 mins in you note there were just 50 humans ?! Did I get that right. Where is your source for this ?

[@justaverycuriousgenzkid4075]

I like the soft voice

[@og-greenmachine8623]

That’s gay...

[@genghiskhan4517]

Around 1:50 to 2:10 you i heard you say something about illnesses something. Can you clarify, I couldn't hear you.

[@leenasansoa]

I spent 1 hour listening to this 14 minute video, Lots of rewinding. Great video thank you!

[@Sawrattan]

If Neanderthals were alive today, I wonder: - if we'd put them in zoos or tribal reservations? - how easy it would be to marry humans? - would religious groups try to convert them?

[@nikejustdoit6167]

Racism would most likely be worse. 😭

[@peace2033]

Leave them in the wild.

[@randomdude8171]

I love anthroplogy! Thanks for this video!

[@endergamer7483]

You mentioned possible religious reverence in painting and the possibility of some religion. Can these paintings give a possible mythology of these religions? Like stories that explain natural phenomena or simple hero stories?

[@santinamarie4699]

If they were meeting and reproducing with humans I guess that makes them human. And if Dolphins can have such a high pitched vast language I'm sure the Neanderthals did too. It's really silly to think that they didn't communicate with some kind of language.

[@dohickey7184]

They did but the vocal range of sounds they could make was not as wide as us modern humans so yeah while they did have the mental capacity to understand complex languages they were physically unable to say them because of the shape of their skulls and larynx, so they didn't

[@pillbobaggins2766]

Sometimes when i look at photos of Neanderthals it’s beautiful to see how some of the features are still around today like the “beetle brow”, they look like modern AFL players!

[@ivanf.482]

I really wish we could reconstruct neanderthal language

[@chrisbishop874]

Neanderthals were ambush hunters with hand held spears,,(accident prone) Modern humans used throwing spears...

[@thefurrybastard1964]

Mainly because they lived and hunted in heavy forested areas where a thrown spear would more likely hit a tree, break or get lost.

[@og-greenmachine8623]

You ARE a “NEANDERTAL”... m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIbPhWmdj75-n8U

[@tweekerlivesmatter]

How long ago were the Neanderthals?

[@ABAlphaBeta]

400000-30000 BP!

[@tweekerlivesmatter]

@ABAlphaBeta What is bp?

[@ABAlphaBeta]

@@tweekerlivesmatter Before Present!

[@ABAlphaBeta]

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[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

ABAlphaBeta actually closer to 400,000-40,000 bp if I remember correctly

[@dylansearcy3966]

For Most early hominids life was brutal

[@shane8037]

Scientists: if two organisms have viable offspring they are the same species Also scientists: Neanderthals and cro mags had viable offspring Also scientists: Neanderthals and humans are totally different species Stop calling them Neanderthals and humans. They are two types of human.

[@ABAlphaBeta]

I say this in the video

[@shane8037]

@@ABAlphaBeta sorry I'm still watching

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

Some scientists prefer to call Neanderthals Homo sapiens Neanderthalensis for this very reason, calling them a sub species like wolves and dogs, but actually a bit more genetically distant then say a chihuahua and a wolf

[@nicklaurindo1916]

@@paulitalian4357 race is a subdivision of a specie not the other way around

[@paulitalian4357]

@@nicklaurindo1916 Did I say something different?

[@tammcd]

""Micro-Biomechanics of the Kebara 2 Hyoid and Its Implications for Speech in Neanderthals"" PLOS 2013 .... "The mechanical performance of whole bones is partly controlled by internal trabecular geometries, regulated by bone-remodelling in response to the forces applied. Here we show that the Neanderthal and modern human hyoids also present very similar internal architectures and micro-biomechanical behaviours. ... Because internal architecture reflects the loadings to which a bone is routinely subjected, our findings are consistent with a capacity for speech in the Neanderthals."

[@slimeyrey9050]

It’d be cool if Neanderthals lived along with us like some type of LoTR style world

[@christophedemedeiros]

Hum many of the findings concerning neandertals shown that they built spears to be thrown so I doubt that they fought with bare hands;;most probably they did chase preys much more larger and stronger than sapiens did;;they had differents tools but even if some rib cages have been broken, it could be due to many reasons( a fall, an animal charge, an accident or whatever) there is one handaxe with a st jacques shell in its middle, attributed to neadertal that is a really a masterpiece in a sense that even me and you could see the beauty and the cognitive process to make such a incrusted handaxe...they had colliers, they colored their skin in red and black, they did wear some raptors feathers as ornemental or for ritual purposes...they were as smart as we are...as sensitive as we can be..as humans as we are.

[@alexbowman7582]

A high larynx would lead to baby like talk as the larynx drops in humans around two years old which is why toddlers under two can’t properly form words.

[@HengeGirl]

You might be interested in "Ice Age Language" by Robert Duncan-Enzmann. You won't regret reading this.

[@mweskamppp]

They also made birch tar for glue or chewing gum.

[@skellagyook]

Neanderthal brains were only larger to control their correspondingly larger bodies (and eyes), not in proportion to their bodies. Proportionally, neanderthal brains were somewhat smaller than human (homo sapiens) brains. Also, homo sapiens had a larger frontal lobe (prefrontal cortex) which relates to higher order thought.

[@skellagyook]

Some links: www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-03/eyes-have-it www.tested.com/science/life/454072-why-bigger-neanderthal-brains-didnt-make-them-smarter-humans/ humanorigins.si.edu/research/whats-hot-human-origins/neanderthals-larger-eyes-and-smaller-brains www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/524386?journalCode=ca “The researchers found that Neanderthals that lived 25-75K years ago had a much higher proportion of their brains dedicated to visual processing, even when compared with anatomically modern humans living during the same time period. This specialization of their brains, the scientists propose, mean that less neural tissue was left over for higher-order reasoning, problem-solving and creating elaborate social networks. This would limit the Neanderthals’ abilities to, for example, trade for resources not endemic to their local habitat, or in times of local scarcity. Additionally, the scientists claim, Neanderthals’ ability to develop or learn new technologies could have suffered due to their brains’ specialization on visual acuity.”

[@NyanHomeschoolGirl17]

Tfw you look just like the dude on the left, but you’re a chick :( Haha seriously tho, thanks for the video! Always found neanderthals fascinating!

[@utahraptor4729874]

What would happen if we cloned Neanderthals?

[@histori6259]

A lot of court cases involving scientists, governments, and international organisations.

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

I’m sure China or Russia would try it, they aren’t known for keeping in mind scientific ethics

[@MarcelineTheWitch]

The cloning would fail

[@radziwill7193]

We would have started to pay them a welfare for extermination, and on Twitch one more word "N" appeared for which they banned.

[@luisromanlegionaire]

@@celtofcanaanesurix2245 Scientific ethics as in dropping two nuclear bombs of cities full of civilians. Please enlighten us more about American ethics.

[@Oli69.420]

the one thing about the barehanded piece in this i feel would be impossible with there low numbers at the time we have javelin like spears from before the neanderthal species even evolved. by the time we were around each other in the same environment neanderthals had hafted spears with glue flint and twine rope

[@leenasansoa]

This video is very informative! I am so proud of finding such a good video for my project. Thank you so much!😊

[@feelsman7837]

What was the event during which early modern humans almost died off that you talk about at the end of the video?

[@dc4457]

About 74,000 years ago the population of modern humans experienced a severe bottleneck. Not as far as the speaker suggests, 50 individuals could never propagate a species, but 4000 is a more believable figure I have read. At this time there was a supervolcano eruption in Indonesia at Mt. Toba which blew up and left a crater roughly 70 x 20 miles which is now a lake. There was a massive climate change or "volcanic winter" that lasted years if not decades and probably shut down most plant growth in the southern hemisphere. No plant growth means mass starvation if the animals you eat die out or move away and there is little plant food left to gather. This may be the event that forced the large scale exodus from Africa, which was already a desert and not the easiest place to survive even in good years.

[@joshadams8761]

I suspect that your pronunciations of “ate” and “that” as “et” and “thet” are perhaps examples of Heightened Received Pronunciation. I am delighted to discover an example of this accent in the wild, having only read about it.

[@joshadams8761]

Edward Turner See pronunciationstudio.com/upper-received-pronunciation

[@joshadams8761]

Edward Turner That is called an intrusive R. Some New Englanders, for example John F. Kennedy, also use(d) it.

[@harrietharlow9929]

Since click languages ( such as that spoken by the San people and other peoples in Africa) are considered the oldest in the world, could Neanderthal languages have been along the lines of those? It's impossible to know of course, but I consider it at least a possibility. Naturally it would be a language different than that of African click languages, but a language all the same.

[@winterbalm]

it is so sad that Neanderthals did not survive

[@xrpsmith8021]

I recently took the 23andme DNA tests. It came back that I am 97.7% English / Irish and 2% Neanderthal. I am a 73 year old woman. I have never had anyone ask me about my appearance suggesting that I could be a Neanderthal. My head is rather large for a female but I don’t have heavy facial features. It’s very interesting to learn about primitive mankind.

[@deesteve4156]

0% African? No way!

[@RJ-sy5xt]

NEXT VIDEO: PROTO LANGUAGES FAMILIES???

[@boudicca4841]

I've certainly got a lot of Neanderthal DNA. I'm stocky with shorter limbs, a massive rib cage and a large brain! That said not hairy nor lacking in good communication, but there have been many generations that have gone before me. Fascinating to learn about our ancestors and some interesting comments.

[@hakatapawa7115]

That doesn't mean anything, just saying...

[@maiaallman4635]

In the pictures above, look at the difference in nose shape.

[@azit6p]

This is the BEST CHANNEL (Sorry for my bad english 😁)

[@fafeniis]

*intense flashbacks of the flute*

[@nyne9997]

Would it be possible to clone neanderthals?

[@histori6259]

Possibly in the near future, but it'd probably be very ethically dubious.

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

Leoonr possible but unlikely do to scientific ethics

[@radziwill7193]

@@celtofcanaanesurix2245 What do you mean? It is precisely the European Marxists who will be glad to see the emergence of a new race.

[@histori6259]

@@radziwill7193 what? If anything hardline marxists would want to see the destruction of the very Idea if race. Tf are you on about?

[@radziwill7193]

@@histori6259 I mean the neo-Marxists, the Frankfurt school.

[@pillbobaggins2766]

If they had pick axes did it mean they understood how to mine for resources?

[@yorukhsn8072]

Are neanderthals Brakisefali head ?

[@williamaaronberryiii6538]

They had to be the same as us, or how else would they have been able to attract and procreate with humans except they appeared as humans to the others???

[@menghis7286]

There's a multitude of evidence showing neanderthals used spears in different ways for hunting. One of which being direct melee, and possibly as thrown projectiles. A far cry from barehanded tackling. We don't "know" what neanderthals had for clothing, for hide tends not to be preserved although that doesn't mean they could't stitch. The birch tar had to be manufactured more complexly than a simple fire due to the quantity that it was used in. The art has been to obscured over time to get an idea of what it was intended to be. Our common ancestor was far closer than homo habilis. This is evident with our shared complex speech and fire usage, in addition to a multitude of physical features shared between us which are more recent then Homo habilis. Despite the old views present in this video I am appreciative of the newer views also. Neanderthals were for all intents and purposes humans like us.

[@josephmueller]

To be honest, there’s no difference between the 2. Both are human, both together are specifically human, just different names.... Homo Sapiens Sapiens and Homo Neanderthalensis.

[@OmegaWolf747]

Hasn't recent evidence shown that Neanderthals had throwing spears?

[@arthurhagen3826]

I get the impression that you often compare pre 50.000 Neanthertals with early modern humans (sapiens-neandertalensis hybrids). Not with pre 50.000 Sapiens in Africa.

[@juancarlosvillazon8163]

Neardenthals are still in Europe. You can see them in England, Germany, Sweden.

[@r.canimations150]

Asians have the highest amount of neanderthal dna in the modern day

[@stronghold429]

They should use your voice in documentaries......

[@chrisrus1965]

Why didn't you mention the eyes?

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Because it doesn't really matter lmao? also we don't know enough

[@chrisrus1965]

@@ABAlphaBeta When listing the differences between the two one should mention that I size and the visual cortex size indicating possibly neanderthals could see better in the dark.

[@ABAlphaBeta]

@@chrisrus1965 Oh, that makes more sense! Yes, I'm really sorry I thought you meant the colour of the iris :c

[@jonathancummings6400]

There are some humans today that have puberty as early. There have been 12 year old girls that have become pregnant and have children. Personally I began puberty at age 9 or so. I was 6' 0" tall by age 13. I only grew 3 inches more for my current height of 6' 3". As usual, generalizations are unhelpful when seeking to understand the Neanderthals. Of course, I have some Neanderthal ancestry like most people with Eurasian ancestry, but I would be surprised that this would have influenced by development. I wonder how many other modern people have experienced puberty as early as difference claimed for Neanderthals. It would be an interesting possibility if people with some Neanderthal ancestry have physical traits that are actually more classic Neanderthal rather than African Homo Sapiens.

[@GamerTrucker96]

Brain sizes has shown many times to not be indicative of intelligence think of it like a computer bigger processor doesn’t always mean better it means one is more effective at completing the same or grater task

[@VredesStall]

This may sound like a strange question... but might there have been different "races" or "ethnicities" among the Neanderthals akin to how we have them among Homo Sapiens??

[@PvtPuplovski]

Possibly, but the whole concept of races and ethnicities are unimportant when it comes to the history of any animal as a whole. Like different dog breeds, it’s all one species with very different accumulative genetic qualities. Race/Breed tends to just be a product of a species’ ability to quickly adapt to different environments, hence why animals like elephants don’t to have different races unless they’ve been separated for millions of years.

[@alexbowman7582]

Neanderthals may have practiced natural birth control like lions in hard times. Because of this perhaps Sapiens could have out bred them. They may have also led subsistence lives that is happy to exist simply day to day much like the Inuit whereas Sapiens may have led improvement lives that is bettering their existence so living in fixed or semi fixed villages where situations improve.

[@richardlong3745]

I would have enjoyed this much more if you would try pronounce more distinctly.

[@vallaurent2035]

Wow, you’re wrong. They had the fox P2, gene and complex artistic abilities, very developed, and they would do sculptures and architectural reconstructions of the cosmos

[@alexbowman7582]

The thal part is a cognate of the English dale and is the root of the word dollar.

[@anotherelvis]

Is it possible that Neandertals were able to survive a broken ribcage, and this is why we see Neanderthal skeletons with a broken ribcage?

[@LowenKM]

The largest brains in modern humans apparently belong to some tribes in Mongolia, also with larger occipital lobes, which is thought to be why they have such an extraordinary ability to remember every detail and location of their otherwise 'nondescript' landscape. And Neanderthals likely had much the same specialized abilities for successful hunting. There's also an interesting theory that Neanderthals would be considered 'autistic' by today's standards, and lacking in not only the language skills of Homo Sapiens, but more important, the social communication skills for organizing tribes and larger, more successful groups. If so, it's been suggested that autism isn't really a 'defect', but simply a holdover from previous human 'iterations'.

[@babyboi3]

Most of Neanderthal brain was used for vision.

[@neil_of_the_east]

When will we get Proto/Austronesians? 😭😭😭

[@krisdood713]

OUI OUI

[@xoxoj]

I'm just curious. We are human I know that. But why are there Asians, white and black people? If we are all the same then why do we have people with black skin or white skin or yellowish skin. And each race have different facial structure and features. I know this sounds stupid but I'm just curious.

[@xoxoj]

Again, Sorry for the retarded question

[@blockheadgreen_]

@@xoxoj Population genetics. Skin colour correlates with distance from the equator - the closer to which, darker skin is better suited. Different facial structures become more common in specific regions when they are isolated from other populations and prove genetically advantageous. The same regional variations occur in Neanderthals too.

[@jeffreywickens3379]

I never hear anyone defining and explaining the difference between modern humans and archaic humans.

[@cricketcricket9749]

I swear, I have actually met people who look just like these two!

[@ronwilliams4184]

The left hand guy looks rather like a French rugby player whose name escapes me atm.

[@beauyerks7413]

Everything I have read says the tho it is almost identical to modern humans however it's placement was slightly different creating kind of a " "Julia Child's" type high voice

[@jussayinmipeece1069]

why are we even debating this as a serious topic? The EVIDENCE proves that before this present crop of "civilized people" there was a far more advanced civilization, so until we figure that out this debate about Denisovans, Neanderthals and humans is not just pointless it like the five blind men describing an elephant.

[@phatrick8848]

If sleep had a voice

[@dennis-qu7bs]

Neanderthals may just have been more clumsy than H. Sapiens.

[@nemanjastojanovic3750]

I really like your videos :) But I am not a native english-speaker, so I find it a little bit difficult to understand you the way you are talking. Could you speak a little bit clearer? Keep up the good work

[@takod323]

ukljuci captions nisu najbolja alternativa ali su tacni u 90% slucajeva

[@aiyahuntacheimumbi236]

I've read that some have determined that brains were developed specifically to accommodate complex motor functions after studying certain aquatic life that cannibalize their own brains once they have reached a stage in their lives where they no longer require self propulsion. It might be that Neanderthal's larger brain mass was to accommodate their more physically demanding lifestyle, and to provide greater neuromuscular control and contractions. Muscle structure and function, and grip strength have both been shown to corelate with brain structure.

[@williamaaronberryiii6538]

Speculative, but may have some validity.

[@famoussaturn3237]

Human gang 😈💯🔥🥶

[@mweskamppp]

There were spears found in europe, 300000 years old. Can only been Neanderthalers. At least they had no atlatls. And they mostly pushed the spears from close distance and did not throw them much, probably. The found spears though were shaped for being thrown. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6ningen_spears

[@aidanperry8475]

That feeling when you're listening to a weeb explain neanderthals instead of going to school

[@og-greenmachine8623]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@farinshore8900]

The distinction you want to make is beyween neanderthal and sapien. Both are human.

[@rinko8527]

The difference is the neantherthal are more handsome

[@SchmulKrieger]

Neanderthals are humans but not all humans are Neanderthals.

[@hydrolito]

Fighting with animals and falling off horses can cause broken bones also bones break easier often when get older.

[@capybaraponque611]

I suggest having someone who speaks more clearly and with a less boring voice, and clearly organizing the video.

[@EkilRevolution]

Neanderthals were a type of human. It should be titled difference between difference between neanderthals and sapiens/modern humans