On 6/16/2010 3:56 AM, AlunFoto wrote:
2010/6/16 paul stenquist<[email protected]>:
But it's politically correct to assume that the nasty and violent humans
caused the demise of the gentle and peace-loving Neanderthals.
Don't see where political correctness came into this equation...
Nobody knows if humans were more or less nasty than neanderthals.
What we know is that modern humans go homicidal over mere tribal
differences, have an excellent record of eliminating competitors on
their level in the food chain, and possible predators as well. To
assume that they somehow did away with the neanderthals in a...
hmmm... less than including way... is just a pragmatic approach. If
that's politics for you, well then it must be the oldest political
direction in human history... :-)
I think you just described the Great Apes in general.
Based on some of what I've read about recent Neanderthal discoveries,
it may well have been assimilation and procreative mingling that led to
the disappearance of the Neanderthals. Of course, natural disasters
and disease are among the numerous possible causes as well. Combat
is probably the least likely explanation.
As BobW pointed to, combat is not the only way. Competitive exclusion
and parasite/disease resistance would do nicely too. For all we know
the neanderthals could have been particularly susceptible to a disease
transferred by, as you say, procreative mingling.
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