Sunday, July 13, 2008

Disappearance of the Neanderthal?

What happened to this descendant of homo-erectus?
1. Neanderthals evolved to a separate species which became extinct and were replaced by early modern humans traveling from Africa.
2. Neanderthals was a contemporary subspecies which incidentally bred with Homo sapiens and disappeared through absorption.
3. Neanderthals never split from Homo sapiens and most of their populations transformed into anatomically modern humans between 50-30 thousand years ago.

I have not done alot of research on this topic but it interests me. So I want to know what you think?

1 comment:

James Matthie said...

Has anyone found the remains of homo sapiens with the remains of neanderthals? Is there clear proof, besides carbon dating, that they coexisted?

A fourth option should include ancient astronauts. I know its a 'crazy' theory to some people, but DNA manipulation could explain a lot of evolutionary anomalies, such as the neanderthals.