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I guess you could call them cavemen. They lived in Europe during an ice age and adapted very well to cope with the cold. They had short arms and legs and big bulky bones. Most of them were found in France. We have so many of their skeletons because they lived in caves. When they died their bodies were put it the back of the cave. The cave protected the remains keeping them preserved for a long time. We are not sure if they are related to our human species because we are not able to map their genome. If we could find some of their DNA like their hair or flesh we could map their genome being able to see if they're related to us.
A Neandertal is an extinct species (Homo neanderthalensis)within the genus Homo that lived during the late Pleistocene epoch throughout most of Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa. Neandertals were built differently from modern humans. For one thing, their bodies were shorter and bulkier. Their brains were also slightly larger than the cranial capacities observed in anatomically modern humans. Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are not descendents of Neandertals; however, we do share a common ancestor.
It is not certain whether the Neandertal genome merged with the Cro-magnon genome, or whether they died out because we outcompeted them. If their genome merged with ours, they would be more properly called a human subspecies (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) rather than their own species.
The neanderthals were an extinct species of early humans that lived along side with homo sapiens.
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∙ 10y agoNeanderthals were a species of humans that existed for an estimated 170,000 years before they disappeared from the fossil record 30,000 years ago. All modern humans are descended from a separate species of early humans known as Cro-Magnon. Neanderthals were shorter than modern man, with longer skulls, jutting brows and chins, and had large torsos with short limbs. They were not adapted for running and hunting in the same way as Cro-Magnon. The reason for their disappearance is not clear, but there are various theories. Some scientists speculate that Neanderthals simply died out because they were not as adaptive or intelligent as Cro-Magnon man. Some believe that Cro-Magnon man actively killed off the Neanderthals and drove them to extinction in competition for resources. However, recent evidence has shown that a small percentage of living humans carry Neanderthal genes, creating the possibility that Neanderthal did not die out, but was simply absorbed into the Cro-Magnon species through inter-breeding. Since Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon are known to have coexisted for at least 1,000 years, this could very well be the case.
Neanderthals are an extinct species of the genus Homo, which includes humans and many of our ancestors and their evolutionaryspin-offs. Neanderthals only existed between about 130,000 and 24,000 years ago, and can be thought of as an early human adapted to harsh Ice Age climates. They were relatively short (average height 5' 5'' for males, a few inches short for females) but well-built. In fact, mutual exposure between Neanderthals and early modern humans may have contributed to the folk mythological notion of a dwarf. Neanderthals had low, flat, elongated skulls, projecting mid-faces, a brain case 10% larger than humans, and a couple dozen other physical features that make them distinct from modern humans, as well as dismissing the idea that Neanderthals were just a subspecies of Homo sapiens.
Neanderthals were an extinct group of closely related hominids that lived in Europe and Western Asia. They coexisted with early modern humans for a period of time before going extinct around 40,000 years ago. Neanderthals were known for their robust physical features and stone tool technology.
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∙ 12y agoA Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) is a species of extinct early man who lived in Europe and Asia. They are named for the Neander Valley where their first fossil remains were found. Neanderthals appeared in Europe as early as 500-350 thousand years ago.
Neanderthals coexisted with modern humans up to 15,000 years after Homo sapiens had migrated into Europe. Scientists do not believe that the population of Neanderthals was ever much more than 10,000 individuals.
Neanderthals' head was larger than modern humans, indicating that their brains may have been larger. They were almost exclusively meat eaters and top hunters. Neanderthal males stood on average about 5'5" and were heavily built with a large bone structure. They had very strong arms and hands. Females stood about 5'1".
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∙ 12y agoA hominid species. Its taxon is Homo-Sapien Neanderthal. They first appeared in Europe about 300,000 years ago. They are not our direct ancestors, they are a branch on the tree. They were a fairly small population they rarely numbered more than 10,000. Their ribcage flared out, so they had little waist, they had a heavy jaw and double arch eyebrows. They occupied the same habitat as the first Homo-Sapiens, there is no proof that they ever saw each other, and there was probably little or no interbreeding. They buried the dead and wore animal skins.
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∙ 14y agoNeanderthal is an extinct species of hominid which lived from 70,000 to 35,000 years ago and known by the scientific name Homo neanderthalensis, or sometimes Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. They existed across Europe and western Asia (See related links below for map).
They exhibited some of the more sophisticated aspects of human behaviour and are known for burying their dead. They are associated with the Mousterian stone tool industry.
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∙ 12y agoA Neanderthal is a species like the cave men
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What type of climate did neaderthals have?
every where
Why did neaderthals have big nose?
Because they were Black
Which of these animals has or had the largest brain neanderthals humans chimp or a stegasaurus?
Neaderthals
When did the neaderthals die out?
The neaderthals didn't die out, they evolved into Cro-Magnons, who are the first "modern" humans, and had highly-developed cultures, and made more complex tools. Both homo sapiens were present at the time where they evolved
What did cave men use to kill there animals?
Neaderthals used mousterian tools
Did neaderthals have archery?
No; Neaderthal fossils have not been found with any tools as complex as a bow.
When did Neaderthals show up on Earth?
I belive the first form of human showed up from 10,000 to 30,000 years ago.
When did the neanderthals die out?
Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago. The exact reasons for their extinction are still debated among scientists, but factors such as climate change, competition with modern humans, and potential interbreeding are likely to have played a role.
Did neaderthals paint caves?
I don't think evidence of Neanderthal art has been found, but that doesn't necessarily mean they didn't create any. This does assume of course that there were any suitable caves where their tribes lived.
Who invented painting?
I don't know if I would call it invented or just a great idea. Art has been around a long time and yes it was first discovered in the Cave of El Castillo in northern Spain. Painted by Neaderthals over 40,000 years ago.
Which organism would be classified as most closely related to humans?
Well, all animals are relatives of humans. WORMS are related to humans. But the closest relative currently is the Chimp, BUT, the closest relative throughout history EVER would be Homo neanderthalensis AKA Neaderthal OR Cavemen. Even now, they are so closely related to modern humans that our direct ancestors from Neaderthals time are STILL not as related to us as the Neaderthals were.
Where did Neaderthals come from?
Neandertal Man was the name given to bones found in 1856 in Germany's Neander Valley ("tal", or "thal" in old German spelling). The name Neander was a pseudonym of the 17th-century minister Joachim Neumann, the Greek translation of his name ("new man"). A major PBS-TV series on evolution1 depicted Neandertal Man as only half human and not very intelligent, one who lived a very inferior life compared to the alleged first humans, the Cro-Magnon people. Some scientists today believe he was "lacking the language skills, foresight, creativity, and other cognitive abilities of modern humans".2 Neandertal Man is considered to be either a link leading to modern man or a dead end in human evolution from the supposed ape-like ancestor.Biblical creationists, on the other hand, believe that there were no "subhumans" at any time. Neandertal fossils are all post-Flood, so these bones are believed to represent just one more group of people which split off from other groups following the Babel dispersion.The evolutionary assumptions concerning Neandertal Man began early this century. The first Neandertal was reconstructed as a "missing link" by famous paleontologist Marcellin Boule (1861-1942).3 He was called Homo neanderthalensis, implying a primitive evolutionary link to modern man, Homo sapiens. Forty-four years later, a reanalysis of Boule's work showed his extreme evolutionary bias in the reconstruction of Neandertal Man. After the reanalysis, some scientists stated that if you dressed him up, gave him a shave and bath, and sent him into society, he would attract no more attention than some of the subway's other denizens (see box below). Neandertal Man was then reclassified as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, just a particular type of modern man.Recreating the faces of our Neandertal cousinsFrom their skeletons, we know that the average Neandertal person had bony differences from the average person alive today, including a bigger braincase. So what did they look like?Bones cannot tell you about things like hairiness, nor the shape of the fleshy parts, like nose or ears. But computerized forensic science has come a long way in making educated "guesses" at a person's appearance from the shape of a skull. As reported in January 1996 National Geographic, researchers at the University of Illinois used computer morphing techniques to fit pictures of living people onto Neandertal skulls.Unlike the artistic reconstructions of earlier times, this time nothing was imaginatively added based on evolutionary assumptions of "primitivity". The results indicate that the bones of the skull would not preclude Neandertals from looking like people you would not greatly comment on (apart from hair and dress style) if they moved in next door to you today.It is interesting that, just as with Piltdown Man, Neandertal's uplifted status was hailed as a "great moment in science" in which errors are eventually corrected. But the clues to Neandertal Man's human affinity were obvious at the time of Boule's reconstruction, just as it should have been obvious that Piltdown Man was a fraud.The great pathologist Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) claimed that the Neandertal specimen he examined had rickets and arthritis, which may have caused some of the skeletal features leading to the wrong reconstruction, but his opinion was overlooked.4 It took 44 years for the highly misleading nature of the reconstructions to be revealed, indicative of the shared bias of the evolutionary community.Even after the Neandertal reconstruction at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago was shown to be false and highly misleading, it took another 20 years for this renowned institution to correct its display!Although the image of Neandertal Man improved by the 1950s and 1960s, there still is considerable controversy within evolutionary circles over his status,5 with many still preferring the "missing link" concept. Although his brain size is a little larger than modern man's, Neandertal's brain is said to be of "lesser quality." Some believe he had incredible physical strength and would fight large animals at close quarters, while others claim he was a scavenger or even a vegetarian. Evolutionists do not know where Neandertal Man came from or where he went. One faction of evolutionists believes modern men, Cro-Magnons, killed the Neandertals, while others believe Neandertal interbred with Cro-Magnon Man, eventually becoming modern man. Neandertal Man disappeared about 30,000 years ago in the evolutionary timescale-a more or less "absolute" date, despite evidence of younger Neandertals.6Another difficulty for evolutionists is evidence that Neandertal Man lived at the same time as modern man and "archaic Homo sapiens", sometimes in the same area. This creates big problems for those professing Christians who, like Hugh Ross, generally accept secular dating methods. Since they cannot date Adam back too far without stretching the genealogies beyond recognition, any human-type skeletons "dated" earlier than a few tens of thousands of years ago have to be written off as pre-Adamic "soulless" quasihumans. Biblical creationists believe Neandertal Man was just a unique variant of modern man who lived in Europe and adjacent Asia and North Africa after the Babel dispersion in the Ice Age (the aftermath of the Flood7).Despite the PBS series on evolution, the status of Neandertal Man has been improving among evolutionists during the past 10 years. The series" failure to mention any of the recent discoveries appears to be typical of its whole propagandistic thrust. The discovery of a human hyoid bone (related to the larynx or voice box) prompted many evolutionists to state that Neandertal Man had speech and language ability equivalent to modern man.8Trinkaus and Shipman9 say:"Although no one had explicitly predicted what a Neandertal hyoid would look like, few were really surprised when it turned out to be a slightly enlarged version of a human hyoid and nothing like an ape hyoid . . . . Many anthropologists came to believe that Neandertals could have spoken any modern human language, whatever their accent may have been."Although the Neandertal hyoid bone was indistinguishable from those of modern humans, some still downplay its significance to speech ability. However, a later report, based on further anatomical evidence, concludes that language has been around for 400,000 years of evolutionary time, including the entire Neandertal period.10The PBS series pointed out that Neandertal burials left little evidence of ritual as compared to those by later humans. Besides leaving me suspicious that their case was concocted, any difference may not mean much, since there are other ways to explain the scarcity of implements or other signs of ritual with Neandertal skeletons. Lately, more evidence of ritual has been showing up. A Neandertal baby was found buried in Israel with a red deer jawbone next to its hip, indicating that Neandertal Man at least had the capability for symbolic behavior.11 A Neandertal toddler was unearthed in Syria at the bottom of a pit 1.5 m (5 ft) deep, with a flint tool resting at about the spot where the infant's heart had once beaten. This discovery is considered "the best evidence yet of Neandertal burial practices".12 Furthermore, pierced animal teeth, probably worn as pendants, and ivory rings were discovered with a Neandertal fossil in a French cave in 1996.2,13 Moreover, it is now known that Neandertals made their own relatively sophisticated ornaments and tools.2 This suggests "a high degree of acculturation".13At one time archaeologists did not believe Neandertals used spears, but this idea has been given the shaft by the finding of aerodynamic wooden spears used by the supposed ancestors of Neandertals.2 Furthermore, it has been discovered that Neandertals crafted a variety of stone tools and deadly, stone-tipped spears, showing an aptitude often attributed only to modern humans.2,14,15 Some scientists had claimed that Neandertal Man was only capable of scavenging carcasses, but a new analysis of break and cut marks on animal bones in caves indicates he butchered the animals, which is consistent with hunting.2 John Shea, who featured in the PBS series, states that this new information contradicts the idea that Neandertals were markedly inferior.2A very recent report now finds that Neandertals used stone implements in more flexible ways than previously thought, which gave them access to a more varied diet of meat and plants.16,17 Based on microscopic evidence of use-wear and residues left on the stone tools in the Crimea,17 the report suggests that those who used the tools, likely Neandertals, exploited a variety of woody and starchy plants and even hunted birds. Residues of bird feathers were found on some of the tools.It has recently been concluded that Neandertals lived side-by-side with modern humans in the Middle East for 100,000 years of evolutionary time and made virtually identical stone tools.18 Hybrids of Neandertals and humans are known from a number of areas,9 including a recent find of a child in Portugal.19 It is not difficult to conclude that Neandertal Man was totally human, and that modern humans and Neandertals likely amalgamated in Europe.One report claimed that Neandertal Man's DNA was quite different from modern humans, supposedly justifying the classification of them into a different species than modern man. But its author, the famed Svante Pääbo, claims that his paper has been misinterpreted.20 And mitochondrial DNA retrieved from an Australian Homo sapiens, claimed to be 62,000 years old, also differs greatly from that of modern humans.21 The team that made the DNA discovery believes this new result will usher Neandertal Man back into the human fold. This result also suggests that DNA studies are not very good for determining supposed evolutionary closeness.It has been suggested that Neandertal Man fashioned a bone flute, an obvious human accomplishment. This deduction is strongly disputed, claiming that the holes in a hollowed-out bear bone were punctured and gnawed by the teeth of an animal, possibly a wolf.22 However, the two complete and two partial holes in the picture shown are linear and very round, making the carnivore theory suspect (available only in the magazine-see p. 11). Besides, about 30 partial bone flutes have been found in Europe late in the Neandertal period and younger.23Those scientists that dispute Neandertal's human affinity seem to forget that he lived during the Ice Age and was able to survive the cold and harsh weather.24 Neandertal Man had to have a human level of sophistication to survive.10,7A new article published in the journal Nature now claims that Neandertals, or possibly modern humans, lived in northern Russia during the Ice Age.25 It had been widely believed that no humans lived in this region until 14,000 years ago in evolutionary time. Based on a mammoth tusk bearing cut marks, likely made from stone tools, the earliest date of man living in this cold territory during the Ice Age was pushed back to 40,000 years. The significance of this is that "adaptation to northern climes requires high levels of technological and social organization",26 strongly suggesting that Neandertal Man, if he was the tool user, was fully human.Many of these reports of Neandertal's total humanity are disputed by some scientists, seemingly motivated by a blind evolutionary bias. In one scene from the similarly biased PBS series, John Shea throws a Neandertal spear with a heavy head 23 or 24 m (80 ft), while he throws a later human spear 42 m (140 ft). This demonstration implied that Neandertals were inferior to modern people. But earlier in the Neandertal episode it was concluded that Neandertals were very strong: the body builders of the Paleolithic. It therefore stands to reason that Neandertal Man could throw his spear significantly farther than 24 m, and that the heavy, sharp stone tip would have been very effective in hunting. The spear that was thrown 42 m had a light antler head and was thrown with the aid of a spear thrower.Despite all the prejudice against including the Neandertals into Homo sapiens, even many evolutionists have become impressed with the evidence for Neandertal's humanity, as research casts a "more complimentary light on the older cousins. This emerging view depicts Neandertals as having a capacity for creative, flexible behavior somewhat like that of modern people".2 Thus, the evidence increasingly supports the biblical position.
