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dawg

(10,624 posts)

4. They weren't stupid.

Reply to yuiyoshida (Reply #3)

Sun Apr 17, 2016, 07:51 AM

Apr 2016

They just weren't as social as us; and they stuck to their own small family groups. Over hundreds of years, those small groups all died out - as small unconnected groups of people tend to do.

Lucky for them, our ancestors thought some of them looked pretty hot. So their DNA lives on inside of us to this day.

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Migrating humans may have killed off Neanderthals by accident [View all] Cooley Hurd Apr 2016 OP

Really unlikely Scootaloo Apr 2016 #1

Spread of disease was a factor in killing off many of the Native jwirr Apr 2016 #9

Definitely true, but it was a crapshoot about which way it might have gone bhikkhu Apr 2016 #11

Agreed and isn't change always a crap shot when it comes to jwirr Apr 2016 #12

True, but that involved several factors that were not present in the paleolithic Scootaloo Apr 2016 #20

Good point. Thank you. jwirr Apr 2016 #21

Not a problem Scootaloo Apr 2016 #22

Apparently not as long as there are Republican candidates... Rhiannon12866 Apr 2016 #2

Why do people assume Neanderthals were stupid? yuiyoshida Apr 2016 #3

They weren't stupid. dawg Apr 2016 #4

That explains my dating life lindysalsagal Apr 2016 #7

So you're not very social ... dawg Apr 2016 #8

But, then again, 200,000 years of success bhikkhu Apr 2016 #13

You're on the right track Scootaloo Apr 2016 #23

But did they have BIG tabasco Apr 2016 #14

and a wide forehead... yuiyoshida Apr 2016 #15

We still have Neanderthal DNA treestar Apr 2016 #5

I think we probably ate them. nt bemildred Apr 2016 #6

That is no joke. AngryAmish Apr 2016 #10

Yes, I'm not joking. bemildred Apr 2016 #16

Ummmmmmmm! Pygmies ... dawg Apr 2016 #19

Yep. sofa king Apr 2016 #17

We just keep evolving libodem Apr 2016 #18