Nope...don't buy the non-violent end to the Neanders for one reason: the rapidity of their disappearance from the Euro scene. They were there one minute and gone the next. Your gene-swapping theory could work if the timing were MUCH slower...
Nope...don't buy the non-violent end to the Neanders for one reason: the rapidity of their disappearance from the Euro scene. They were there one minute and gone the next. Your gene-swapping theory could work if the timing were MUCH slower... If CroMag had a distinct advantage as a hunter (eg, verbal abilities that made it easier to coordinate a group of hunters bringing down large game -- which is not easy to do if all you've got is spears and thrown rocks), he could strip a Neandethal hunting territory of game in short order. They wouldn't have to come into direct conflict with each other -- one would be able to survive in an area that the other would starve in