Neanderthals lived for 300,000 years in Europe. We will never know much about their behavior because they went extinct 40,000 years ago. We know they were intelligent and had many human characteristics. So what would happen if Neanderthals never went extinct?
angela c
Interesting but I like the Neanderthal predation theory better, pute hair on em let them breed with all the surviving hominids and us of course, and what you end up with is the modern sasquatch variety’s. If you have seen one of these you might read the book called us and them. After my encounter it helped me to make sense of them but, it’s all just my opinion.
Tony s
They were tool makers that had skills that were arguably as good as modern humans in many cases and they were small. Stocky but small. So how did they loose their tool making abilities and triple in size or more in tiny amount of evolutionary time. Their are better primitive human options than Neanderthal. Look up heidelbergensis. However while their size was way larger it still isn’t big enough and that doesn’t explain away the loss of tool making abilities. It is very unlikely that they would evolve backwards as far as their tool use.
Vinnie G
Lloyd Pye, “Everything You Know is Wrong” – https://youtu.be/e5qJYwfAju8