The Mysterious Downfall of the Neandertals

Scientific American ^ | August 2009 | Kate Wong

[decimon]

Key Concepts

* Neandertals, our closest relatives, ruled Europe and western Asia for more than 200,000 years. But sometime after 28,000 years ago, they vanished.
* Scientists have long debated what led to their disappearance. The latest extinction theories focus on climate change and subtle differences in behavior and biology that might have given modern humans an advantage over the Neandertals.

[wildbill]

Just wanted you to get my point

[Pharmboy]

We hunted, killed and ate 'em.

End of story.

[decimon]

Thanks decimon for posting this, and thanks wildbill for the ping and comments.

I forgot to ping you. That's what you get for trusting me. ;-)

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, thanks for pointing that out, I didn’t check, I just assumed...

[bert]

Te males were killed. The females were placed in brothels.

[Peter ODonnell]

It was probably too much partying and clubbing, especially clubbing.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Hey! I’m descended from them, and I DEMAND Reparations!!

[Pharmboy]

...just the purty ones with the big tatas.

[Peter ODonnell]

I read the article, and the main problem was, they didn’t eat their vegetables.

[U S Army EOD]

Maybe they elected Og-boma as their president.