i have noticed some white people look like neanderthals? they will have like those weird low foreheads and small beady eyeballs and light brown hair, kind of like in the geico commercia. some people really look like that. i wondered if they didnt die out. maybe they mated with white people. this is not meant to be racist as im white myself.
2007-02-09 20:01:03 · 10 answers · asked by wcarolinew 2 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
im sorry to offend people. its just been something i have been wondering about for awhile.
2007-02-09 20:12:11 · update #1
The question is not racist - how silly. How easily offended some people are.
The most "popular" hypothesis in paleaoanthropology is that Neanderthals died out, perhaps through competition for resources with modern H. sapiens. However, there are still a number of archaeologists and other researchers who think that neanderthals and moderns bred. This would have 40,000 years ago or more. See the links below for some fairly recent research in this area. Whether certain physical characteristics is evidence for some genetic link is not clear, but not likely.
2007-02-10 08:00:26 · answer #1 · answered by Rod S 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
no longer purely whites. Neanderthals and the Cro-Magnon (early present day people) coexisted for 10,000 years in Europe, west Asia and the middle East, until the Neanderthals went extinct 27,000 years in the past. Interbreeding did ensue. Genetic checking out has shown that all and sundry present day people, apart from Sub-Saharan Africans, have a million to 4 % Neanderthal DNA in them.
2016-11-03 01:28:40 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well Scientist have now found Neanderthal DNA in white people. So it is pretty much a fact that Humans and Neanderthal interbred.
2014-07-01 19:38:02 · answer #3 · answered by wu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Neanderthals were a separate species of Homo that was gradually wiped out by the introduction of our ancestors, the Cro-Magnons. However, there could have been limited occurrances of interbreeding between some populations of Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon people, and it is also thought that the two species have a common ancestor somewhere back in the family tree. Either way, modern day humans do not resemble either of these two groups of people; research Neanderthals and look at their stature, the large size of their cranium, and other features that helped them to adapt to cold climates. (And on a side note-it has been speculated that they had red hair, but this hasn't been proven. Just an interesting fact.)
2007-02-10 05:26:18 · answer #4 · answered by Jiffer. 2 · 4⤊ 5⤋
I learned from anthropology that neanderthals did die out.
2007-02-09 20:04:27 · answer #5 · answered by The Answerer 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Chech this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_(people) or
http://www.geocities.com/joao_marri/africapart21.html
2007-02-09 20:07:12 · answer #6 · answered by GURU 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Whether you think it or not, it's racist. Just like saying some black people still look like monkeys.
2007-02-09 20:03:41 · answer #7 · answered by pamela_d_99 5 · 1⤊ 7⤋
I believe we all are, sweetheart.
2007-02-09 20:04:26 · answer #8 · answered by tharnpfeffa 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
WE ALL ARE, since we are all HUMAN...
2007-02-09 20:07:59 · answer #9 · answered by lstntfnd 2 · 2⤊ 5⤋
lol
2007-02-09 20:03:41 · answer #10 · answered by Debi in LA 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋