Everything you need to know about Neanderthals.
Neanderthals are always confusing, and this blog will clear your doubts about Neanderthals and also discuss What Religions said about evolution and after giving A Prelog to Anthropology we have explained, How Exactly were Neanderthals different than us? How Neanderthals were? and also Why are Neanderthals not Survived?
What Religions said
When People who belong to Abrahamic religions tell you that their books consist of almost every knowledge in the world, then start believing in science because it is a testified source. Anthropology provides a survey of Scientific theories. When science says this is how humans are made, Anthropology takes this data from Science and Then works on what makes us humans?
So, you can say that Anthropology here provides a philosophical approach to the study but only with the proven facts and not with the crap.
A Prelog to Anthropology
Anthropology ensures us that Adam was not our ancestor. There was no role of Noah in saving the species that inhabited this planet.
Bible says Noah’s Ark was 140 meters long. Still, Bible also says Noah saved millions of the species, which is technically impossible. Because the Ark of Noah was 525 feet in length, 87 feet in breadth, and 52 feet in height, for the sight of comparison, I must tell you, an Airplane Boeing 747 is 71 meters long, and only 467 maximum passengers can sit in this Airplane. But considering the Ark of Noah is twice the size as this Airplane, we can comfortably conclude that Noah’s Ark cannot hold more than 1500 passengers.
In the First book Genesis, it is mentioned that “bring a pair of every kind of animal—a male and a female—into the boat with you to keep them alive during the flood. Pairs of every kind of bird, and every kind of animal, and every kind of small animal that scurries along the ground, will come to you to be kept alive. And be sure to take on board enough food for your family and all the animals. So, Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.”
Christians believe that there were at least fifty thousand species in that Noah’s Ark.
So, you might be wondering why I mentioned all of this?
The science explains that Noah’s Ark can’t fit this many numbers Species in one Ark, That Ark was twice smaller than the Titanic. But it is Biological Anthropology that thinks it is possible to witness these much wider varieties of Species with just the fifty thousand species saved by Noah. Because current Encyclopedia says, there are 2 million discovered species in the world. However, there are an estimated 15 million different species live on this planet that is still unknown.
How Exactly were Neanderthals different than us?
Our ancestors, from whom we have evolved ourselves. They are known as Homo Sapiens, and that is a Latin name, it means A Wise Man.
But Neanderthals were different species of humans, and this is really interesting to think why there is no other species of humans left on this planet, Only Sapiens.
Even for Tigers, Panthera-Tigris, there are 8 subspecies. If this is not blowing your mind, then I don’t think that anything else can.
Neanderthals were named after the first Archeological evidence that modern humans found in a German valley called Neander. Since then, we are calling this sister branch species of ours the Neanderthals.
How Neanderthals were?
They were our sister species, and they don’t exist in today’s world, so don’t confuse yourself. This is like studying your Ancient Uncle crushed by your father and survived only because of your father. In this case, your father is Homo sapiens, and your uncle is Neanderthals. It looks like Uncle’s legacy is no more.
Their DNA is different from ours, but I have already mentioned how their threads of partial DNA still existed inside us and what changes they bought inside us. You can say, only because the partly neanderthal DNA inside you allows your Armpit hairs to grow, and if you are a male and have a good beard, then thanks to Neanderthals.
Creativity of Neanderthals
Don’t consider yourself too smart. We Homo Sapiens are cunning, and only because of this do we are survived, but Neanderthals were Creative. They drew drawings, and they were complex for them because you cannot expect a Graphic design.
Their legs were thicker, and muscles were wider, and it allowed them to travel for 50 km to find their meal. They were 5%-20% stronger than today’s humans.
They prefer to hunt the bigger and heavier animals than their size and weight, but they were good hunters. They hunted Mammoths, and these beasts were 11 feet tall and 6 tons in weight.
Neanderthals used to make gloves, shoes, and clothes from the skin of animals they have hunted and weapons from the bones of animals. They were very creative in Arts.
Still, confused between Neanderthals and Sapiens?
In Hobbit Movie, that King Thorin and Bilbo were Neanderthals. But the Aragon from Lord of the Rings was a Homo Sapiens.
What did actually make the Neanderthals disappear?
Their life span was only limited to 40 years old, and their adult age was 11 years. What were you doing at the age of 11, huh?
Till now, no one knows why they hadn’t survived besides Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals have faced almost similar problems 40 thousand years ago. Still, yet we are not seeing anyone from Neanderthal species sitting next to us.
There are several possibilities, but no one is sure.
- Diet: They were non-vegetarians, and at that time, there were no butcher shops, so if you were a neanderthal, you would have to pick up your axe and all the very best for Happy hunting. As I have already mentioned, they preferred to hunt mighty animals like mammoths and durable animals like Bison. There were many casualties before eating one piece of the meal.
The winters of those ages were too difficult, and even today, Humans and Animals die from winter. Many small and large animals suffered from this. There was no food for Neanderthals for the long winters, so many died due to hunger and were not ready to follow a Vegan diet. - Because of Global cooling during winters, they were forced to live together with Sapiens. In the previous blog, I have already mentioned their mating.
- Living together created conflicts and these conflicts were not resourceful for Neanderthals because Sapiens were taller than them and more agile. The weapons of Sapiens were long-ranged, and they mostly used long spears, so the long-range attack was possible.
- Neanderthals had a lower birth rate.
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