To: Pharmboy
Wiping out a related group is easy ~ show up with a new kind of headcold, maybe some TB, or possibly pneumonia.
You'll take over the cave without firing a shot.
Neanderthals appear to have lived in smaller groups than our own folks ~ which suggests they had a serious problem with infectious disease.
3 posted on
05/10/2011 5:10:35 AM PDT by
muawiyah
To: muawiyah
I always assumed that Neanderthals were foragers while Cro-Magnons actually cultivated crops.
Sodbusters vs. Free-rangers?
Ants vs. grasshoppers?
4 posted on
05/10/2011 5:30:50 AM PDT by
ZOOKER
( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)
To: muawiyah
The disease factor is the item I favor with my non expert opinion. So many animals of the Pleistocene disappeared, that that to me, I have to speculate that the Neanderthals succumb to the catastrophe as well. Something in the genetic makeup made them more vulnerable than the Cro Magnums that replaced them...
10 posted on
05/10/2011 6:02:46 AM PDT by
LRS
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