Did Neanderthals Go Extinct Because of the Size of Their Brains? Using computers and MRI scans, researchers have created the most detailed reconstruction of a Neanderthal brain to date, offering new insights into the social and cognitive abilities of these extinct humans. But as to whether these characteristics were responsible for their ultimate demise remains an open question. New research published today in Scientific Reports suggests important differences in cognitive and neural function between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals led to differences in behavior that may have resulted in the conditions under which anatomically modern humans succeeded and Neanderthals failed some 45,000 years ago. To reach this conclusion—and in one of the first studies of its kind—scientists conducted a comparative analysis of Neanderthal and early modern human skulls to infer brain function. But because no other archaeological evidence was provided to bolster the case, and because the shape and size of brains cannot be definitively tied to cognitive capacity and behavior, the question of what caused Neanderthal extinction remains very much unsettled.
The story of the Neanderthals has puzzled archaeologists and anthropologists ever since the first skeleton of this species was uncovered in 1829. Despite years of research and speculation, we’re still not sure what went wrong for the Neanderthals, who lived in Europe and Asia for a whopping 200,000 years, much of it during the Ice Age. At the same time, scientists aren’t entirely sure what went right for Homo sapiens. So when it comes to explaining their failure and our success, it’s fair to ask: What were the differences that made the difference? Perhaps there were differences in how the two species were able to adapt to rapidly changing climatic and environmental conditions. Or maybe it had to do with differences in technological, social, and economic systems, or differences in foraging and hunting strategies. It’s possible that Neanderthals had inferior or limited communication skills, or that Neanderthals were either absorbed or wiped out by early modern humans. These theories are all fascinating and provocative in their own right, but the ultimate reason remains unclear.
“This team has found significant differences between Neanderthal brains and modern human brains, specifically in brain areas we associate today with human capacities for language, social cooperation, and memory capacity,” Lana Ruck, a doctoral student in the Cognitive Science Program at the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University, told Gizmodo. “Because these are all very adaptive behaviors which have expanded in humans relative to other species today, it is interesting to study how these brain areas differed between the hominins.” Ruck, who wasn’t involved in the new study, said this is especially interesting in the case of the Neanderthals, because the two species actually interacted with with each other on the landscape, and because differences in cognition are a big hypothesis for why the Neanderthals went extinct, but Homo sapiens did not. As the researchers concluded in the study:
No they lost out to the more successful white Early European Modern Man. Which was mostly more successful because of the comparative advantage gained from the sexual dimorphism that white Neanderthals lacked.
Eli Gonzalez
You've done it now OP, Schizo-Nigger is gonna be pissed.
Much more muscle, denser bones, and if cranial volume did equate to larger brain, even more caloric consumption. They may have been more susceptible to starvation, or had less endurance for long treks to chase down scarcer big game herds in that situation.
Carson Perry
Neanderkike Internet Defense Force is out in full force I see.
Jews are 1/12th the tribe of israel, Abraham is told by god that the tribe of Joseph has his blessing not the first born judah (jew=tribe of judah)…
The bible is the story of the neanderthal, the neanderthal is the hyperborean, the jew is our shitty evil brother. Only our blood could match us in intelligence and stop us out of jealousy for "our fathers love" aka the favor of the universe.
Jaxon Reyes
Answer; Neanderthals were Rain Man autists. They were intelligent as fuck but lacked child like creativity. When they mated with white homo sapiens they gained that creativity and lost the tism but kept the intelligence.
Cameron Johnson
Check the back of your skull with your hand. If you feel a "bump" on the back of your skull then that means you have high amount Neanderthal DNA.
It is called "occipital bump" and there are couple of theories of why it existed in Neanderthals but 2 prominent ones are: 1) Muscles grabbing on the back of the skull better for stabilizing big skull 2) Bigger occipital lobe
That's fucking easy. They have larger brain. Which is the primary axis the head rocks on? Forward an backward. Forward is "protected" by shit like the jaw, nose, and face. - Backward is protected by a larger occipital bone.
Colton Mitchell
Holy fuck I have that and always wondered what it was. I dont know anyone else with it and googling it way back when always gave the stereotypical webMD answers of "congrats its a tumor"
Henry Harris
Yeah but yours is probably a tumor. f
Michael Ortiz
I have one too brother When I found out what it was I questioned few of my friends to see if they had that too. Looks like most of non NPC people that are a bit weird have that.
Neanderthal bro, we gotta unite and eliminate this weaker race
Aiden Torres
All this talk of neanders, what's the story with cro-magnon. Sick of hearing constantly of the unaesthetic neanders but never anything about the objectively superior kino of the cromag.
The Neanderthal-Kike meme seems pretty compelling though user. Are we Jewish rejects or the product of Cro-Magnon's infiltration against the Neanderkikes - just enough of their blood to understand them fully to better defeat them but not enough of their blood to BE them?
Carter Gray
My bloodline fought on the sides of Germans in WW2 and fought against the Ottoman empire for few hundred years to keep Europe from Religion of Cuck™s power.
So, I don't know bout you famalam, but I ain't siding with the kikes. But I saw many people with occipital bumps that were kikey or at least mentally ill to point of kikery
Matthew Campbell
Neanderthals didn't go extinct, and unless you're a nigger, you're part Neanderthal too. Niggers are pure cro-magnon.
Andrew Martin
Another Neanderthal thread? Oh well, I guess one was not enough.
Look, another user who has absolutely no idea what the fuck he is talking about!
Michael Myers
Early Cro-magnon had higher rates of Neanderthal DNA than modern Europeans. It's possible that Cro-magnon were an isolated group of neanderthal that evolved and then spread out rapidly into the middle east and up into Europe interbreeding with and outperforming the resident neanders. They found a neanderthal fossil that was 99.9% identical to modern Europeans. Modern Euros are closer to neanderthals than they are to niggers. Neanderkike is a disinfo meme.
Michael Hall
And I should point out the Out Of Africa is complete bullshit.
Connor White
LOLOL!
(((Robert Sepehr))) was so butt hurt that his last (((Neanderkike))) thread didn't convince the goy they're all kikes that he made a new one. Fucking control freak level 10,000
It's completely incorrect. You see, ashkenazi come from a cult enclave in medieval Europe, one which would go on to author the "Talmud", which has no authentic basis in ancient history whatsoever (!).
Why would they have Neanderthal? Well, the men, like Weinstein, took for themselves wives among the peasant folk in Germany. Quite simple, that.
They are semites who raped white women. Sick, but that's the reality. And that's where their Neanderthal came from.
Chase Ramirez
Neanderthals died out because their tribe structure was extremely limited, their average tribe was the size of a family, whereas for humans it was dozens of families. Neanderthals didn't trust anyone outside their family, and either ran away from them or attacked them, while human tribes freely swapped families between one another.
This caused three chief problems that led to extinction: 1. As they migrated their families spread out more and more, which meant there was no way to keep genes flowing, and they started getting inbreeding diseases. Eventually they became so desperate to find mates that they bred with humans, we know this because the neanderthals that bred with us were very similar genetically - in other words inbred. 2. They didn't have anyone to trade with, and couldn't even move very far in search of food, because they weren't in the habit of crossing into territories of other hominids. Which meant no food during times of scarcity, and their families died out one by one when the climate cooled. 3. When they did come in contact with humans they pretty much had to run, because humans had tribes around ~300 in size, while Neanderthals had average tribes ~20 in size. Our very presence scared them out of range of food without any conflict! The fact humans can be friendly to dogs suggests we could easily be friendly to 99% human-looking people….. they just ran away from us like frightened deer.
Charles Parker
Semitic Jews have less Neanderthal admixture than whites.
Only Ashkenazi Jews have similar admixture, because Ashkenazis bred with whites for two thousand years.
Jaxon Long
Sorry I didn't see your post before writing this:
You are of course absolutely correct; All Neanderthal admixture in Jews comes from local Slavs and Germans they bred with, and Talmud was written around the time the Roman empire collapsed (400-600 AD).
James Gonzalez
anti vs pro neanderthal fighting is a funny meme imo.
Adrian Morgan
extinct? I is still here faggots.
Zachary Myers
wtf levels of retarded that should not even exist user I……
Jews doubling down on the poisoning of the anthropology well with their "muh Neanderkike rabbi grandad" lies. I was annoyed at first, but it's so easy to disprove since all jews have 0% Neanderthal DNA, and whites like me have up to ~20% Neanderthal and 0% jew DNA.
Brandon Jenkins
Petralona. We are a distinct group that got fucked over by the neander/denikike line. Deni went on about their business for the most part and evolved into bugs.
Jack Mitchell
You lying jews aren't white, and never will be. You can pretend you're descended from hominins like us whites, but you can't lie on a DNA test.
You're a descendent of the hominids. JUST LIKE NIGGERS. TOP KEK
Noah Davis
is this just a meme?
Alexander Rivera
Keep trying moshe, your extinction is inevitable you lying jew fuck, we were around long before neanderkikes started raping us and your monkey slaves walked out of the desert.
And they said neanderkikes can't create. Look at all the pottery.
Chase Howard
Neanderthals are alive today. What one group of people is so much different than the rest of the world; is mathematically intelligent yet no artistic, social, or motor skills???
Alexander Rogers
Heard that in an evolutionary psychology lecture in 2004. Don't know why the news is trying to say it is new news.
Josiah Carter
Wrong, fucking read something you retard.
Neanderthal finds show far greater tool creation/use, and socialising, highlighting empathy. The utter opposite of autists.
Charles King
To my understanding our brains are smaller because of specialization we don't need to know as many things to survive but because of it we can do more with less.
Thomas Fisher
Read out of Asia theory if you can, it makes much more sense. Combined with multiple origin theory, even better.
Africa is a dead end offshoot where the monkeys bred with monkeys.
Jose Turner
the "juden are neanderthal" is a psy-op that came about very recently, after an increasing amount of people realising that nogs are clearly classified as non-human due to them having no Neanderthal dna.
Kike skulls and faces are easy to identify, you don't have to look for an occipital bump, look at the forehead, low and sloping. The nose, the ear droop, the receding chin. The fish lips. The wooly, niggerarab hair. Some are interbred with humans, but as they age the features always dominate. Kikes can't hide what they are. By 40 they are in full juden-mode.
Adam Jones
Neanderthals were absorbed by the Homo Sapien gene pool as we mated with them. Neanderthals were responsible for the cultivation of dairy from other animals as well as producing cheese. It is this reason why white people are lactose tolerant, and many other races are not.
Adam Long
This and this. Someone who has read.
Adam Jackson
So what is correct then? Even a vague psudo ayylium answer would do. If the nigs nogged in Africa that wouldn't explain Europeans/Aryans and being able to interbreed.
Austin Rodriguez
According to 23&me, I have a lower than average amount of neanderthal DNA, yet have that bump. I don't think there's a relation.
Brayden Ross
Could be. Above average here, have the bump, but none of the four traits (low back hair, low-sneeze chocolate, and whatever else).
Cooper Garcia
Checked for hitting the bullseye!
Michael Sanchez
I thought that the reason they became extinct is they need lots of energy and their body is not efficient enough to get more energy from the foods so because of that they can't run for long time and get tired quickly which put them at risk getting eaten by the animals.
John King
23&me is kike owned, kike run data collection and propaganda psy-op. The best thing you can do is burn the piece of paper they gave you and discard it as absolute fiction. They do things like fiddle with results to put nigger dna in, and adjust according to whatever their sick sjw agenda demands. If you read about it, and other dna novelty prizes, they are barely based on reality, and are only worth taking note of when they have 50%+ of a type, and only then that that is in you. The rest might as well be a random draw.
Jackson Sanders
checked
Mason Howard
No one knows. More likely is resource competition with other hominids, since they were doing fine for "200,000 years".
Dylan Cook
No it isn't. And what you must understand is that, yes, 23andMe is kiked. But the lab they use is quite white indeed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabCorp Why white? Because genetics are far too difficult for a kike brain, and this is completely obvious.
As for people gaining a copy of your DNA, well, they don't gain a full copy, by any means. They aren't sequencing your full genome. It's just a whole bunch of SNP, basically single letters (after a specific sequence) that are either important or being investigated.
The main reason to not get tested by 23andMe is if you are planning on or already have raped anybody.
The analysis is inaccurate and mostly useless, not worth submitting any part of your dna. Nice argument, faggot. The adjustments are done after the tests. Read about it, and find a new job.
Do you mean the external occipital protuberance? It's correlated strongly with sexual dimorphism, but has basically jack shit to do with Neanderthal DNA. If you have a set of functional testicles, you can probably feel it.
Leo Hughes
They haven't gone extinct.
Jaxon Jenkins
Show us the pure living Neanderthals.
Aaron Evans
Were Neanders the ancients who walked the earth before the time of men?
It's a psyop they've been working on for a little over a year now. It's also part of the same operation genealogy tracking websites are working with. On two fronts the Jew is attacking the racial basis of white culture: directly lie to you about how much nigger or kike DNA is in you, and lie about the origin of white DNA.
The Jew realizes it's MUCH harder to subvert whites with strong familial bonds and self documented family histories. So only a few small percent (mostly cucks) will fall for the "oh wow I'm 2% nigger!" meme. With that knowledge they simple move up the evolutionary branch to one of our extinct ancestors: Neanderthal.
The hilarious part though, is we can prove scientifically 100% of jews have 0% Neanderthal DNA. Because 100% of jews are descended from a completely different branch: the hominid branch. Thus, and like we've been saying for years, jews aren't white because they aren't related to Neanderthals at all.
Neanderthal, Early European Modern Man, and us whites are descended from hominins. Niggers and jews are descended from hominids.
I only studied this for 4 years in college ~20 years ago, Rabbi Nevergonnabewhitestein.
Brandon Rogers
Even a little bit of critical thinking can be used to refute the JEWS ARE THE REAL NEANDERTHALS argument. Really? Only an absolutely miniscule portion of the world's population is the only surviving remnants of a major human ancestor which lived in EUROPE and not the middle east? Kikes are pushing this meme so they can say that they are the true and original Europeans and whites are the evil invaders that cast them from their "true home" into the shitty sand dunes (their real true home).
Justin Hill
nuCheddar Negro is also a piece of this hot mess.
Jackson Jenkins
Why would they go to such an extent? I can understand adding nigger DNA to gene tests, and propagating OOA theory over OOM (Mediterranean/Asia) theory, but how useful could it be to them to hide the neanderthal science from us? All we need to know is in front of us when we walk outside in a multicultural city.
Honestly I don't think either of you are completely right. I trust this Anons statement more, he seems to know what he's talking about:
They didn't only live in Europe, I think it was more Mediterranean clustering with good amounts of them in Anatolia. Its only in Sub Saharan Africa that there were no Neanderthals or Denisovans (neanderthal-derived), but even some of them had introgression. There must be more to it.
Gabriel Hall
Every tool they can use to push miscegenation they have at their disposal they will use. As I just said previously the attack has multiple fronts, and this whole area of the psyop could simply be referred to as the "Genetic Theater" or "DNA Campaign" using war-room nomenclature.
If you're genuinely asking me why a people that committed deicide would go to "such an extent"… you might be one of (((them))).
Henry Martin
And after this much studies you still dont know what terms Hominid and Hominin stands for? Listen kiddo. Use kikepedia to find this out. And dont forget to reasign this thread to someone with high school.
It's their modus operandi, rewrite history one fact at a time. A slow boil.
Probably, but what I said still stands. It makes no sense for kikes to be The Real Neanderthals™.
Daniel Myers
He's wrong, and he completely ignored the major role that comparative advantage gained through sexual dimorphism played in EEMM "winning" over Neanderthal. They did have people to trade with: EEMM. Also they had a significantly longer gestation period, and it has been theorized that Neanderthal offspring were more akin to toddlers than the infants of Modern Man. In regards to migration, running away, etc that would also play a significant role as it puts a hard limit on the maximum speed/distance the tribe could travel.
Liam Cruz
I know that you Jews are 100% descended from hominids just like niggers, and that whites are 100% descended from hominins. I know the DNA evidence proves this conclusively, and (((people))) like you post meaningless pictographs and make vague claims implying you're: white, and descended from white Neanderthals. You're not. You're a semitic homonid aka sandnigger.
Other way around. Jews knows that because of modern genetics, they cant hide the fact, they are only half humans, any longer. Therefore, some 10 years ago, they started campaign to convince whites, they are descendants of Neanderthal. Now. Even you are one of the naive whites who proudlj fellt for this bait, or you are simply a jewish tricker carpet bagger. Thing about it. Why o why would jews whitewash Neanderthals for 10 years now, make them musicians and philosophers, who even made trip to America with boats? If Neanderthals were ancestors of the whites? Yea, I know. Because jews are honest and they love us.
I'm not, although I might be more moderate because I have a bias that I'm not truly Aryan and don't live in the West, but I lurk sometimes because I sympathize with your struggle. I think the better theory is that natural selection made Whites more superior more recently, because in colder areas of Europe after the Ice Age they had to evolve to be smarter and more cohesive than in warmer areas where you can survive by simple agriculture or even warmer areas near tropics where you can survive as a hunter-gatherer.
Yes but they do that by focusing more on holohoax propogandra for example. When it comes to genetics the most they can do is try to convince Whites they're not fully White to make them feel less part of the White community.
If so that's evidence they're smarter because longer gestation period means i) more time the tribe has to stay in one place as mothers are pregnant which increases chances they'll learn to cultivate land ii) more time for their brains to develop and become smarter. And of course, as you're saying iii) less ability to run away, if they don't want to fight EEMM than its more likely they'll tolerate them increasing chances of interbreeding. Maybe you're right that neanderthal genes are a part, but I still think there's more to it.
Jesus user, I will copy that from kikepedia for you:
A hominoid or ape is a member of the superfamily Hominoidea: existing members are the lesser apes (gibbons) and great apes. A hominid is a member of the family Hominidae: all of the great apes. A hominine is a member of the subfamily Homininae: gorillas, chimpanzees, humans (excludes orangutans). A hominin is a member of the tribe Hominini: including humans. A hominan is a little used term for a sub-tribe. It is only used by people who put chimpanzees in the Hominini. A human is a member of Homo sapiens. The word is sometimes also used to refer to any extinct member of the genus Homo or members from other hominan genera. A humanoid is a vaguely human-shaped entity; the term is typically used in science fiction.
