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5.17.2009
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One of science's most puzzling mysteries - the disappearance of the Neanderthals - may have been solved. Modern humans ate them, says a leading fossil expert. - Guardian
Neanderthals could not have been eaten out of existence by humans: they couldn't have been fat (ie, energy-rich) enough to warrant the excessive and dangerous effort it would take to kill them.
I'll buy that some humans preyed on our cousins for food in desperate times; privative humans do that to themselves in recent history. But human brains, human tribalism, and the end of the last ice age are the more likely cause of Neanderthal extinction.
Neanderthals could not have been eaten out of existence by humans: they couldn't have been fat (ie, energy-rich) enough to warrant the excessive and dangerous effort it would take to kill them.
ReplyDeleteI'll buy that some humans preyed on our cousins for food in desperate times; privative humans do that to themselves in recent history. But human brains, human tribalism, and the end of the last ice age are the more likely cause of Neanderthal extinction.