00:00Why did Neanderthals disappear while we survived?
00:02They were stronger than us, adapted to the Ice Age, and capable of behavior once thought
00:08uniquely human.
00:09They were shorter and broader than us, with heavy skeletons and shorter limbs that helped
00:15conserve heat in cold environments.
00:17Their skulls were shaped differently, and their brains were larger on average than those
00:22of modern humans.
00:23That did not necessarily make them more intelligent, but it makes their disappearance even harder
00:29to explain.
00:30They made hunting weapons and repeatedly brought down large animals.
00:33This was not a species barely surviving.
00:36It had mastered its environment.
00:38They shaped stone tools, used fire, and made adhesives to attach stone spear points to wooden
00:44shafts.
00:44This required planning, skill, and detailed knowledge of materials.
00:49Some survived severe injuries that would have made life almost impossible alone, suggesting
00:54others in the group helped keep them alive.
00:56At several sites, evidence supports deliberate burial.
01:00It does not prove ritual, but it makes the line between them and us harder to draw.
01:05Then Homo sapiens entered Europe more than 45,000 years ago.
01:09The populations overlapped for millennia, and genetic evidence proves they interbred.
01:14So why did we survive when they did not?
01:17What made Homo sapiens so special?
01:19The answer may have had less to do with intelligence than with numbers.
01:23Some Neanderthal communities were very small, while repeated waves of modern humans kept arriving.
01:30Climate shifts and competition may have added pressure, but there was probably no single
01:35cause.
01:35Some groups may also have been absorbed into Homo sapiens.
01:39Many people alive today still carry around 2% Neanderthal ancestry.
01:44Perhaps Neanderthals did not disappear completely.
01:47Perhaps they became part of us.
01:49But it was the last one whoทำ a lot of arable呀 and does not happen to us in this animal
01:49behavior situation.
01:49And even though Iасс rivalry, I presume that's interesting, we don't have more energy due to it.
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