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2020-05-22 Science
Homo sapiens WERE to blame for Neanderthal extinction because they were better hunters and out-competed them for food, computer model shows
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Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 "Oh, they used a *supercomputer*! That makes all the difference", he said, with a barely concealed sneer.

Neanderthals managed to survive in ice-age Europe for a couple hundred thousand years, which suggests they had something going on in terms of survival.

My money is on disease. Similar to how the population of the Americas was nearly wiped out by smallpox and influenza brought by the Spaniards, I'd bet the new arrivals brought some novel nasty the Neanderthals had no immunity to. Hey, that sounds kind of familiar!

Posted by SteveS 2020-05-22 01:28||   2020-05-22 01:28|| Front Page Top

#2 And they probably killed and ate Neanderthals, so?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-22 01:48||   2020-05-22 01:48|| Front Page Top

#3 stand up now for Neanderthal justice!
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-05-22 09:01||   2020-05-22 09:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Neanderthal groups were small, about 8-12, did not have large trade networks and were sparse in population density and had primitive hunting techniques that mostly involved running up to something and stabbing it with a spear.

Cro-Magnon had huge trade networks, small to large groups, up to decent sized towns, traveled widely and had advanced technology and hunting techniques that required little risk to the hunter.

Doesn't take a super computer to figure out that not only the Cro-Magnon will outbreed the Neanderthal, but out compete them as well. As soon as they showed up in Europe, the Neanderthal were doomed as a separate species.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-05-22 09:05||   2020-05-22 09:05|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ I blame 'Open Borders.'
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-22 09:16||   2020-05-22 09:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Were these the same models used in the Wu-Flu?
Posted by Warthog 2020-05-22 09:18||   2020-05-22 09:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't forget mail in voting, Besoeker! :p
Posted by DarthVader 2020-05-22 09:23||   2020-05-22 09:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Models; like Civilization or the Total War series?
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-22 11:33||   2020-05-22 11:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Re: #6, And the same model used for predicting 'climate change'. Still waiting for proof. So far AFAICT, not a single 'climate change' predictions has come true.
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-05-22 11:34||   2020-05-22 11:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Reparations now!
Posted by charger 2020-05-22 14:02||   2020-05-22 14:02|| Front Page Top

#11 First read it as 'for Neanderthal juice'!
Posted by Vespasian Graimble1740 2020-05-22 14:43||   2020-05-22 14:43|| Front Page Top

#12 I’ve read that Homo sapiens neanderthalensis needed 4000 calories per day, compared to half that for us Homo sapians types. Having better tools that allowed more efficient hunting techniques just cranked up the competitive difference.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-22 19:35||   2020-05-22 19:35|| Front Page Top

#13 Sorry. Homo sapiens sapiens.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-22 19:37||   2020-05-22 19:37|| Front Page Top

#14 If they'd only learned how to ferment...
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-22 19:48||   2020-05-22 19:48|| Front Page Top

#15 Careful Frank, Lex is gonna hit you on the hooch.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-22 20:36||   2020-05-22 20:36|| Front Page Top

#16 \_/
here's mud in your eye lookin' at you, (s)Kid
Posted by Lex 2020-05-22 21:23||   2020-05-22 21:23|| Front Page Top

#17 *saunters in places a bottle of Horse Soldier bourbon on the with one hand, a clanking of clean sip glasses in the other, onto the table*

If I hear so much as the humming of that Everlast song, I'm coming back with a Stormtrooper's disregard for accuracy.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-22 22:01||   2020-05-22 22:01|| Front Page Top

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