Did we, Homo Sapiens, wipe out the Neanderthalers or did we in fact embrace them and love them to death.
Or in other words: is prof C.M. Barton a hippie?
From Science Daily:
As an ice age crept upon them thousands of years ago, Neanderthals and modern human ancestors expanded their territory ranges across Asia and Europe to adapt to the changing environment. In the process, they encountered each other.
Although many anthropologists believe that modern humans ancestors "wiped out" Neanderthals, it's more likely that Neanderthals were integrated into the human gene pool thousands of years ago during the Upper Pleistocene era as cultural and climatic forces brought the two groups together, said Arizona State University Professor C. Michael Barton of the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity and School of Human Evolution and Social Change.
"The traditional story in textbooks doesn't fit well with what we know about hunter-gatherers. For the most part, they don't like to go far from home. It's dangerous," Barton said.
8 Comments
Read the book ‘The Clan of the Cave Bear’ by Jean Auel.
By kloeless on 13/02/2012 - 7:01Hoe hebben die hunter gatherers dan de hele wereld bevolkt as ze niet van reizen hielden?
By DrOetker on 13/02/2012 - 7:19The researchers used archaeological data to track cultural and socio-ecological changes in behavior in Western Eurasia during the past 120,000 years.
By reprint on 13/02/2012 - 7:30As Neanderthals and early humans land-use patterns shifted during the last ice age, computer modeling showed that the two populations began to interact and mate, leading to the “extinction” of one of the groups due to hybridization, a well-recognized phenomenon in conservation biology.
Neanderthals were limited to western Eurasia and usually it is the smaller population that becomes “extinct” in this way. Nevertheless, succeeding hybrid populations still carry genes from the regional group that disappeared, according to the researchers.
By reprint on 13/02/2012 - 7:30Volgens mijn grootovergrootvader is beide gebeurd.
By Heer Reuzenkater on 13/02/2012 - 13:17@1 juist, de platkoppen! Af en toe deden ze het met de mensen, of andersom.
By Apiedapie on 13/02/2012 - 13:32The neanderthalers moved out to the American continent where they started the republican tribe.
By JaJu on 13/02/2012 - 17:03@ 6 Apie
Maar ze hadden helemaal geen platte kop.
By JaJu on 14/02/2012 - 15:49