Neanderthals: Smarter Than You Think
You have more in common with a Neanderthal than you might think. Michael Aranda explains our latest finds in this episode of SciShow! Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Support SciShow by...
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If I ask you to picture a Neanderthal, the image that you conjure up in your head might not be very flattering. Sloping brow, speaking only in grunts, maybe carrying a cartoonishly large club -- sound about right? Well, a slew of recent discoveries -- just in the last five or ten years -- suggest that Neanderthals were anything but brutish cavemen. They lived in Europe from about two hundred thousand years ago, to around the time that anatomically modern humans -- that’s us -- showed up on the continent, roughly 40 thousand years ago. And they’re a lot less different from us than scientists used to think. In fact, many experts aren’t even sure that Neanderthals and modern humans are different enough to be considered separate species. We now know, fo...
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If I ask you to picture a Neanderthal, the image that you conjure up in your head might not be very flattering. Sloping brow, speaking only in grunts, maybe carrying a cartoonishly large club -- sound about right? Well, a slew of recent discoveries -- just in the last five or ten years -- suggest that Neanderthals were anything but brutish cavemen. They lived in Europe from about two hundred thousand years ago, to around the time that anatomically modern humans -- that’s us -- showed up on the continent, roughly 40 thousand years ago. And they’re a lot less different from us than scientists used to think. In fact, many experts aren’t even sure that Neanderthals and modern humans are different enough to be considered separate species. We now know, fo...
