Are they extinct? Many people have a fairly significant amount of neanderthal DNA.
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Viceversa@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoWhy they extinct?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Viceversa@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If they wouldn’t be extinct, we would have neanderthal DNA with a fairly significant amount of other DNA.
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My understanding was that they went extinct because they needed more calories to stay alive (due to their strength) and also they stayed together in smaller groups of ~10-20 people, compared to humans’ ~100 people groups.
When Neanderthals came into contact with humans, they were either absorbed into or outcompeted by human groups
P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It also seems they lacked the dexterity of humans. So they had to hunt with spears by stabbing at them instead of throwing them from a safer distance.