What are Neanderthals?

Neanderthals are an extinct species of Homo, which includes people and many of our ancestors and their evolutionary spinoffs. Neanderthals only existed between about 130,000 and 24,000 years and can be considered a early person adapted to the harsh icy climate. They were relatively short (average height of 5 '5' for men, several inch short for women), but well built. In fact, the exposure between Neanderthals and early modern people can contribute to the folk mythological notion of the dwarf. The Neanderthals had low, flat, elongated skulls protruding in the middle of the position, the brain case 10% larger than humans and several dozen other physical features that distinguish them from modern people, and also transmit the idea that Neanderthals were just subspecies Homo sapiens.

Neanderthals never existed in very large numbers; Scientists find that there have never been more than 10,000 individuals at a given moment. About 400 Neanderthal fossils found by Mábyly found, some with parts of soft tissues that allowAccess to genetic material. Like other members of the Homo family, Neanderthals lived in tribal groups from about 20 to 200 members.

, which was the latest species of Homo, which was extinct, were neanderthals advanced in their technology and culture due to earlier species such as Homo Habilis or Homo erectus. Their stone industry is referred to as Mousterian and represented sharp double edges, including axes, scrapers, spears and others. There is even evidence that Neanderthals made a spear for use as projectiles, which is a practice normally associated with our own type Homo sapiens. Neanderthals dealt with other complex activities that are usually associated with modern people: ritual funerals, sophisticated shelters, use of fire and skin animals. Like some human groups, there is evidence that practiced chilling cannibalism, perhaps the side effect of the lack of the needVIN on European and Asian tundra.

There is a strong anatomical and genetic evidence that Neanderthals have a tongue or some form of speech more complicated than just grunts. They had a hyoid bone that connects the tongue with the larynx, allowing a much wider range of tongue and larynx movements than other primates. The Neanderthal ear study suggests sensitivity to a number of sounds and DNA extracted from bones shows the presence of the same version of FoxP2 gene as modern people, a gene known to play a close role in human language.

Because Neanderthals have not been disappeared for too long, their DNA is easy to extract from real bones and is assumed that the Neanderthal genome will be sequenced in the near future. This opens the possibility of reviving non -randons, synthesizing their complete genome and injecting into a fertilized egg and growing outcomes in the human womb. Reviving Neanderthals would be one of the greatest scientific achievements in history, but is a demanding set of ethicsk.