00:00 Do you remember the Neanderthals?
00:02 Our humanoid cousins of Pleistocene?
00:06 With their wide noses and their inclined foreheads?
00:09 They traveled through Europe and Asia for more than 350,000 years before disappearing.
00:14 It was around the same time that our ancestors, the Homo Sapiens, decided to leave Africa and explore the world.
00:21 We may never know what happened to the Neanderthals and why they did not survive to this day.
00:27 But thanks to important archaeological excavations and impressive fossil discoveries, we now know a little more about them.
00:34 One of the theories explaining their disappearance is that the climate was no longer suitable for them.
00:40 The supporters of this idea believe that Mother Nature would have turned against the Neanderthals and would have annihilated them.
00:46 However, if we examine Neanderthal archaeological sites, in Italy for example,
00:52 we find no sign of a climate disaster that could have put this species at risk.
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