In human history, we came to find that there are many different species relating to the human species. One of these species is called the Neanderthals or also known as cavemen. Approximately 40,000 years ago the neanderthals lived but, they vanished instantly at a period of time. Not many people know why or how this happened, who really were the neanderthals and finally what they were like. Neanderthals were a species that branched off of our ancestral tree. According to many, they had multiple image problems as to what modern day humans view them as. We thought that they hunted by brute force, had simple tools and were very primitive like. They lacked knowledge and intelligence as well as language and art. They weren’t as high up at the
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Only very few of them survived and relating to Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest only the best were able to survive. With the ice age coming to an end in Europe, there was a new species on the rise. This species migrated from Africa and had so happened to be the homo sapiens or in other terms humans. People had theories that humans hunted and killed every last one of the neanderthals but that was proven to be false as well. Homo sapiens outnumbered the neanderthals. It was a 10:1 ratio between homo sapiens and neanderthals. Another 10,000 years later the neanderthal population went extinct. Recent studies have shown that homo sapiens and neanderthals mated. Our species combined had an offspring that wasn’t infertile. Ice age southern Europe, was a hot bed of neanderthal and homosapien interbreeding. They were bed out genetically, swapping interaction and absorption which was a route to success of interbreeding with our population. Since neanderthals lived in harsh and brutal conditions their DNA provided them with certain adaptations to live in these harsh conditions. Their DNA provided us with the ability to have human leukocyte antigen (HLA) which is to regulate our immune systems making them stronger. Also, to fight off viruses and bacteria. In every person there is at least one percent DNA of the neanderthal species within them. It is more common to have a higher percentage of neanderthal DNA in
Only very few of them survived and relating to Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest only the best were able to survive. With the ice age coming to an end in Europe, there was a new species on the rise. This species migrated from Africa and had so happened to be the homo sapiens or in other terms humans. People had theories that humans hunted and killed every last one of the neanderthals but that was proven to be false as well. Homo sapiens outnumbered the neanderthals. It was a 10:1 ratio between homo sapiens and neanderthals. Another 10,000 years later the neanderthal population went extinct. Recent studies have shown that homo sapiens and neanderthals mated. Our species combined had an offspring that wasn’t infertile. Ice age southern Europe, was a hot bed of neanderthal and homosapien interbreeding. They were bed out genetically, swapping interaction and absorption which was a route to success of interbreeding with our population. Since neanderthals lived in harsh and brutal conditions their DNA provided them with certain adaptations to live in these harsh conditions. Their DNA provided us with the ability to have human leukocyte antigen (HLA) which is to regulate our immune systems making them stronger. Also, to fight off viruses and bacteria. In every person there is at least one percent DNA of the neanderthal species within them. It is more common to have a higher percentage of neanderthal DNA in