Why Are We The Only Humans Left?

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    In part 2 of our special series on human ancestry, we ask why we are the only surviving branch on the human evolutionary tree. Just 50,000-100,000 years ago, Earth was home to three or four separate human species, including our most famous cousins: the Neanderthals. New research has shown that Neanderthals were not the brutish, unintelligent cavemen that cartoons make them out to be. They were creative, smart, social, and perhaps even had complex language. So why did they go extinct as soon as Homo sapiens moved into their territory? Does any trace of them live on today? Why don’t we have Neanderthal neighbors?
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    REFERENCES:
    Papagianni, Dimitra, and Michael A. Morse. The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story. Thames & Hudson, 2015. amzn.to/2oov6GG (Library: www.worldcat.org/oclc/923279213)
    Stringer, Chris. “Lone survivors: How we came to be the only humans on earth.” Macmillan, 2012. amzn.to/2oIFg3q (Library: www.worldcat.org/oclc/855581724)
    Tattersall, Ian. “Masters of the planet: the search for our human origins.” Macmillan, 2012. amzn.to/2pOZrKS (Library: www.worldcat.org/oclc/733231407)
    Walter, Chip. “Last ape standing: the seven-million-year story of how and why we survived.” Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2013. amzn.to/2pP2liy (Library: www.worldcat.org/oclc/872121723)
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  • @besmart
    @besmart  Pƙed 7 lety +11436

    It's lonely being the only humans left. Don't you wish we still had some Neanderthal neighbors?

    • @samf9314
      @samf9314 Pƙed 7 lety +849

      no they r ugli

    • @playc.holder6432
      @playc.holder6432 Pƙed 7 lety +141

      This video was private for almost an hour before we got to see it😭😭😭

    • @thorgray2991
      @thorgray2991 Pƙed 7 lety +85

      Yes
      I want to learn more

    • @jadduajones
      @jadduajones Pƙed 7 lety +6

      Voytek love it

    • @fermat101
      @fermat101 Pƙed 7 lety +66

      Aliens wiped out other humans

  • @dniam9859
    @dniam9859 Pƙed 5 lety +16454

    Neanderthals didn't disappear. I have one living in my house pretending to be my brother.

  • @chizomessussylittlebtch3941
    @chizomessussylittlebtch3941 Pƙed 5 lety +8423

    maybe they became so smart they moved to space and are now laughing at us. (Where tf did you people come from. I- hellođŸ€š )

  • @jp4431
    @jp4431 Pƙed 2 lety +3369

    If we discriminate people of the same species and even put some of them in zoos back in the day, imagine what we would do to our Neanderthal cousins.

    • @user-wd1cy2jd6k
      @user-wd1cy2jd6k Pƙed 2 lety +97

      Considering most racists are obsessed with their Neanderthals genes they'd probably worship them as gods.

    • @semolinalibra
      @semolinalibra Pƙed 2 lety +49

      @@Idk-do1ui cause humans are always racist

    • @semolinalibra
      @semolinalibra Pƙed 2 lety +260

      @@Idk-do1ui people nowadays are still racist or just ignorant. Idk where you got 50 from, even 10 years ago racism was prominent.

    • @madbymycommentumad9041
      @madbymycommentumad9041 Pƙed 2 lety +162

      @@Idk-do1ui lol I’m black and I’ve encountered a lot of racism ,I’m only 13 btw

    • @madbymycommentumad9041
      @madbymycommentumad9041 Pƙed 2 lety +22

      @@Idk-do1ui yes.Specifically

  • @runamuck840
    @runamuck840 Pƙed rokem +1010

    It would seem cool if multiple human species were living together in this day and age

    • @magnus2660
      @magnus2660 Pƙed rokem +546

      I don't know. We fight over skin color. Imagine what we would do if multiple human species lived to this day.

    • @runamuck840
      @runamuck840 Pƙed rokem +148

      @@magnus2660 that could be a problem however we coexisted with Neanderthals for quite awhile and evidence suggests we got along well

    • @RodinRaskol
      @RodinRaskol Pƙed rokem +47

      I wonder if that could cause a different world and history.

    • @Everyoneisanartist776
      @Everyoneisanartist776 Pƙed rokem +48

      @@runamuck840 the “politics” (using the term cover a vast array of societal quirks) was vastly different back then, which we all know has a enormous influence over a group’s scene of decency and civility.

    • @runamuck840
      @runamuck840 Pƙed rokem +2

      @@Everyoneisanartist776 true

  • @timothycarlsson9082
    @timothycarlsson9082 Pƙed 4 lety +4102

    Mankind: theres no way we're the only ones right?
    Reality: you killed everyone else dummy

    • @momojjspsesos1407
      @momojjspsesos1407 Pƙed 3 lety +151

      Did u know humans were the some of the weakest animels now look at us literally we can watch stuff from all over the world and can kill every animel

    • @momojjspsesos1407
      @momojjspsesos1407 Pƙed 3 lety +75

      And we kill our own people lol we have war of some land xD

    • @rantranger1527
      @rantranger1527 Pƙed 3 lety +91

      @@momojjspsesos1407 that's why brains > brawns

    • @ethan82714
      @ethan82714 Pƙed 3 lety +45

      "Everyone is dead Dave"

    • @samara3172
      @samara3172 Pƙed 3 lety +39

      we killed so many other animals and their habitats, so yeah, this makes the most sense to me

  • @jaymonaz
    @jaymonaz Pƙed 4 lety +8120

    We can't even handle different skin tones now I can imagine if neanderthals were still alive

    • @diegoveloso3rd
      @diegoveloso3rd Pƙed 4 lety +900

      Well they arent, and that says something

    • @GrillaStyle
      @GrillaStyle Pƙed 4 lety +434

      Even in modern humans, we can see examples in phenotype traits which portray those found in our ancient ancestors like denosavian, habilis, australiopethicus, florensis and neanderthal to name a few. The gene pool for hominids is much smaller now due to most of them dying off. But the modern human carry many of ancestors genomes. Accounting for different skin tone, height, muscle/bone density, cranium size and shape, blood-type, diet and all other ways of differentiating humans. I love learning about hominids and our genetics. Btw u look cute

    • @CyanideOwl
      @CyanideOwl Pƙed 4 lety +328

      I never met someone who is racist.
      And I mean racist but making jokes.
      There is more people being racist towards white people than other colored people.

    • @Starpentine
      @Starpentine Pƙed 4 lety +149

      Cyanide this is actually true and it’s being ignored

    • @theomardell5430
      @theomardell5430 Pƙed 4 lety +798

      @@CyanideOwl Just because you've never met someone who is racist it doesn't meant that there isn't racism- the world expands beyond your experience.

  • @brianroberts783
    @brianroberts783 Pƙed 2 lety +317

    Kinda makes you wonder if some of the Others in various mythologies, Fomorians in Celtic Myths, Dwarves in Norse Mythology, etc., might be a sort of "cultural memory" of interactions with Neanderthals. A lot can change in a 50,000 year long game of Telephone.

    • @Demon1csouls
      @Demon1csouls Pƙed rokem +10

      I like this idea

    • @albino478gaming5
      @albino478gaming5 Pƙed rokem +43

      Makes you wonder if genetic memory is real on some level. Like why are concepts like Dwarfs and Elves seem so old, like they existed since the dawn of time? What if they were real an untold amount of years ago, bred with us humans, and their genes live on within us today? After all, Dwarfs exist today. Some people have pointier ears than most, like elves.
      Dragons are also very widespread, with each culture putting their own twist on the subject. Like the eastern wingless dragons

    • @thenoobprincev2529
      @thenoobprincev2529 Pƙed 8 měsĂ­ci +7

      That's literally the concept behind the late Michael Chrichton's book, "the eaters of the dead". You might have seen the movie based of it, the 13 Warrior.

    • @vogel2499
      @vogel2499 Pƙed 4 měsĂ­ci

      Elves is Tolkien's invention.​@@albino478gaming5

    • @baph0met
      @baph0met Pƙed 2 měsĂ­ci +4

      That's what I always thought, and not about just this, things like giants and dragons, or the Kraken etc. All these legends and mythologies, I like to think there were these types of humans and animals living let's say 10,000 years ago and this all got carried through time. I also love to think about premordial civilization, like the civilizations BEFORE Sumerians, the premordial mythologies. Fascinating to think about.

  • @ugo9248
    @ugo9248 Pƙed 2 lety +58

    4:18 we definitely killed them. We find it difficult living together with ourselves, imagine having another competition

    • @ghostoflego3390
      @ghostoflego3390 Pƙed 2 měsĂ­ci +1

      Yeah but our dna results show that we inter bred with the neanderthals. How would this be possible if we inter bred.

    • @roronoa876
      @roronoa876 Pƙed měsĂ­cem +4

      @@ghostoflego3390 we're diverse species intellectually, obviously there were some oddballs that wanted to mate with other neaderthals.

  • @frownyclowny6955
    @frownyclowny6955 Pƙed 3 lety +2598

    “And if they were so smart, then why did they disappear after they met us?”
    Laughs in American colonization of the 1400s

    • @Spiritual_AJ01
      @Spiritual_AJ01 Pƙed 3 lety +9

      Lol

    • @markbasayg1078
      @markbasayg1078 Pƙed 3 lety +140

      they were smart enough to know the future
      and the future is so bad that they just kill themselves because they dont want to suffer in the future

    • @changeeyecolor3891
      @changeeyecolor3891 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      👍👌👍👌👍👌👍👌👍👌👍👌👍

    • @mattbabb.
      @mattbabb. Pƙed 3 lety +26

      How did America colonize 300 years before its inception?

    • @anakinskywalker9848
      @anakinskywalker9848 Pƙed 3 lety +45

      @@mattbabb. okay. The European nations colonized the Americas. There are two of them.
      NOT THE UNITED STATES. But America

  • @mcthrull7417
    @mcthrull7417 Pƙed 4 lety +2169

    Well the neanderthals made rockets already when we were just learning languages and now they live at the andromeda galaxy

  • @ayoxe348
    @ayoxe348 Pƙed 2 lety +56

    Definitely going in my new book called “Humanity’s biggest bruh moments.”

  • @keeganolsen1616
    @keeganolsen1616 Pƙed 2 lety +119

    I'm glad all the other species went extinct. Could you imagine how badly we'd be divided if you threw specieism on top of racism and sexism?

    • @jamesmcdaniel6038
      @jamesmcdaniel6038 Pƙed 2 lety +2

      Hope you cought the joke.. if you know, you know :)

    • @raystxxr
      @raystxxr Pƙed 2 lety +1

      Omg ikr

    • @baph0met
      @baph0met Pƙed 2 měsĂ­ci

      Take a guess why they went extinct, we killed them, I mean us humans, either directly or indirectly. If they somehow survived to this day on some remote island or something there would probably be a genocide similair to that of the holocaust, sad but that's the reality.

    • @FlamingoshootsMC
      @FlamingoshootsMC Pƙed měsĂ­cem

      Omg your a neanderthal and your black and your gay it's the end of the world

  • @hitsurapapel1978
    @hitsurapapel1978 Pƙed 3 lety +1001

    Fun fact: we view neandrethals as hunch backed because the first skeleton of a neandrethal we saw had kyphosis

  • @rubydragon3738
    @rubydragon3738 Pƙed 5 lety +4333

    Our brain named itself the brain

    • @angrysocialjusticewarrior
      @angrysocialjusticewarrior Pƙed 5 lety +261

      Mind blown!

    • @Delinquent_
      @Delinquent_ Pƙed 5 lety +133

      the glob inside my head tells me that the english language named my glob the "brain", the chinese globs called it " æ‚šćŒæ€§æˆ€ "

    • @benjaminolsson2162
      @benjaminolsson2162 Pƙed 5 lety +433

      Well the brain is the most important organ... According to the brain.

    • @freyjarat5340
      @freyjarat5340 Pƙed 5 lety +24

      doo doo doo doo doo doo

    • @mcblazar1061
      @mcblazar1061 Pƙed 5 lety +31

      @@freyjarat5340 wtf is that supposed to mean

  • @Suzzers
    @Suzzers Pƙed rokem +97

    Crazy to think that so many of us are the result of two very similar species going at it.

  • @bonniehoke-scedrov4906
    @bonniehoke-scedrov4906 Pƙed 2 lety +29

    This is my first time enjoying your CZcams channel. Great content! Looking forward to hearing more from you! Your video was so informative. Thank you so much!

  • @musicalpriss1364
    @musicalpriss1364 Pƙed 5 lety +3285

    In all honesty, it’s both fascinating and terrifying to think that we are the last of our ancestors...

    • @Hi-eb3kk
      @Hi-eb3kk Pƙed 5 lety +58

      Musical Priss if you believe in evolution then aren't we all related to slugs?

    • @losmike7238
      @losmike7238 Pƙed 4 lety +216

      We are related to bananas

    • @lordx4641
      @lordx4641 Pƙed 4 lety +72

      Last of our ancestors what ya mean 7 billion is too many

    • @flyingstonemon3564
      @flyingstonemon3564 Pƙed 4 lety +19

      @@Hi-eb3kk no they are too far away to be related now but our latest common encestors was LUCAS

    • @Ezm42069
      @Ezm42069 Pƙed 4 lety +5

      @@Hi-eb3kk you're a dummy

  • @victorluna1147
    @victorluna1147 Pƙed 5 lety +6321

    Knowing how humans are, we probably killed most of em 😂

    • @DreamVirus
      @DreamVirus Pƙed 5 lety +368

      this video is actually a bit wrong because we did killed most of them.
      there is a book about the human history all of the species that were back then and what happend to this day.
      the book called Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.

    • @catatoblob8598
      @catatoblob8598 Pƙed 5 lety +336

      @@DreamVirus actually, I would say that sapiens is a very sensationalist take on non-fiction, and if that's your sole source of information about human prehistory, you should probably supplement that with actual research.

    • @backwardsbandit8094
      @backwardsbandit8094 Pƙed 4 lety +218

      We killed them and/or fucked them and interbred! Love and hate are bound to be some of our oldest instincts.

    • @ryareyna921
      @ryareyna921 Pƙed 4 lety +31

      Catato Blob tbh we probably did kill off most of them

    • @Analheme
      @Analheme Pƙed 4 lety +118

      It's unlikely that we did. Can you imagine purposely hunting a population to their death when you're only a handful of humans, far from being a civilisation yet, already fighting to survive in a harsh environment?
      I'm not saying we didn't fight, but studies shows that Neanderthals were already in the decline by the time we met then. I think our interactions were much more complex than that, we killed each other, yes, we compete for ressources, yes, but we exchanged too, and we mixed with each other. I'm convinced that your ancestors didn't even realize that they were a different specie.

  • @bsheldon2000
    @bsheldon2000 Pƙed 2 lety +49

    During the time the two groups lived together, there was a continuous migration of new modern humans into the shared region. This was due to the population explosion happening at the time in what was a very high quality habitat in the Sahara region. What is known as source sink dynamics is enough to explain why present day humans have a much lower percentage of genes from Neanderthals. It is like mixing 1 part red paint with 99 parts blue paint, both paints are still there, but all you can see is blue.
    I am not sure of the figures, but I believe that 25% of Neanderthal genes are still in existence in living humans, that 4% figure is just the highest amount that has been found in any one individual.

  • @rogersledz6793
    @rogersledz6793 Pƙed 2 lety +20

    Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

    • @kellythrash3154
      @kellythrash3154 Pƙed 2 lety

      Same! Been binge watching this channel all weekend and sending shows to all my friends. Now nobody will talk to me, lol.

  • @liss8481
    @liss8481 Pƙed 4 lety +1619

    Me: wants to know about my ancestors
    23 and me: okay but you have to pay
    Me: *sigh* they're dead anyways right

  • @DeTalented
    @DeTalented Pƙed 4 lety +4685

    Being a human (very rare btw), I can confidently say that my species killed all of them

    • @DeTalented
      @DeTalented Pƙed 3 lety +177

      @Vliffin This comment is meant to be a joke, and jokes don't need to be scientifically accurate. I have all rights to woosh you

    • @dodoarks3186
      @dodoarks3186 Pƙed 3 lety +40

      @Vliffin we only mated with Neanderthals

    • @GGG-hh5jo
      @GGG-hh5jo Pƙed 3 lety +44

      Probably their women goes natural selected mode

    • @Vexis_plays_games
      @Vexis_plays_games Pƙed 3 lety +15

      @@DeTalented I really wished I was here earlier to see the comment before it was deleted. Posting it to r/iamverysmart would have been fun
      And I would like your comment but I can't seeing as it's at the magic number

    • @communistparty9540
      @communistparty9540 Pƙed 3 lety +8

      @@DeTalented what did he say?

  • @mansisaraiya9944
    @mansisaraiya9944 Pƙed 2 lety

    I found this channel on my recommendation and now i have been watching for more than an hour . Not complaining

  • @stevenmagdefrau158
    @stevenmagdefrau158 Pƙed 2 lety +4

    Your lesson tells all. Alone is not good. Lots of friends is good. Being open to passion is good. Survival is a basket of abilities.

  • @eurodraco
    @eurodraco Pƙed 7 lety +271

    Considering how you only graze over the fact that there were other types of humanoids other than Neanderthals, the title of this video should really be "What happened to the Neanderthals?"

  • @maligayavillalino1147
    @maligayavillalino1147 Pƙed 4 lety +530

    It's ok to be smart: "Why are we the only humans left?"
    2020: *Ahh, Good morning, today's a wonderful day today*

    • @hxplixgaming6099
      @hxplixgaming6099 Pƙed 3 lety +7

      Lmao

    • @hxplixgaming6099
      @hxplixgaming6099 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Man sause nowadays lmao

    • @maxxmabemwe4859
      @maxxmabemwe4859 Pƙed 3 lety +7

      If the only humans left are so smart why do they dedicate so much of their time, energy, and resources to finding ways to murder each other? The vast wealth spent on killing machines could be spent on developing clean energy, cleaning up the oceans, recycling, cooperating in space exploration, developing medicines to treat, and even cure diseases. The killer ape pats himself on the back while bragging about how smart he is, but his actions speak louder about how primitive he really is. The display of the capital riot would make so-called lower animals seem more advanced than that crowd.

    • @hero303-gameplayindonesia8
      @hero303-gameplayindonesia8 Pƙed 2 lety +1

      @@maxxmabemwe4859 most murderers do that for money, while psychopaths and sociopaths do that because they're brains are designed to murder someone, for satisfaction.
      did i somewhat answer your question?

    • @chriswentz5197
      @chriswentz5197 Pƙed 2 lety

      To all people in 7 of September,or the Night before September,which btw do you remember?we gotem

  • @leen8430
    @leen8430 Pƙed rokem +41

    ''Prehistoric boybands'' sent me. Just discovered your channel and I already love it, your videos are so informative, funny and fascinating. Thank you!

  • @pogo55555
    @pogo55555 Pƙed rokem

    That was really great. Thank you.

  • @Freakhealer
    @Freakhealer Pƙed 3 lety +1206

    i knew someone that looks like a neanderthal, all the physical features match, i always wished i had his dna tested. i fell like i ignored a living fossil.

  • @GrayGaming-uv9md
    @GrayGaming-uv9md Pƙed 3 lety +464

    Nah our ancestors were like: “Wanna 1v1?”
    Then we won.

    • @gruntlegpeice6099
      @gruntlegpeice6099 Pƙed 3 lety +45

      Lol we didnt kill them off. They couldnt survive on earth so there numbers dwindled than they bred with humans. After breeding with humans they had half Neanderthal and half homosapiean babies. Than the half babies bred with a homosapien. Than there is only 25% Neanderthal. Than the cycle continues leaving less and less Neanderthal. Thats how we have 4% neanderthal in most of u.

    • @charleswhitefullbusteruchi1972
      @charleswhitefullbusteruchi1972 Pƙed 2 lety +7

      @@gruntlegpeice6099 they tell you that?

    • @gruntlegpeice6099
      @gruntlegpeice6099 Pƙed 2 lety +12

      @@charleswhitefullbusteruchi1972 not in this vid but he said it in a other one

    • @anaklusmosgreek3198
      @anaklusmosgreek3198 Pƙed 2 lety

      wasnt there a psycho path in lore that said we ate them?

    • @GrayGaming-uv9md
      @GrayGaming-uv9md Pƙed 2 lety

      Lol yeah i eat neanderthals for breakfast my dude

  • @melanisticsoldier5816
    @melanisticsoldier5816 Pƙed 2 lety +7

    this guy is better than every science teacher ive ever had

    • @captainpoppleton
      @captainpoppleton Pƙed rokem +1

      Teachers back then weren't allowed to say "... a more runnier existence..."

  • @neilsmith8839
    @neilsmith8839 Pƙed rokem

    This video made me feel like a kid in school again. I loved it đŸ„č

  • @littlee5583
    @littlee5583 Pƙed 4 lety +739

    Him: *I have more neanderthal DNA than 70% of people*
    Me: say unga bunga

  • @Small_child_punter
    @Small_child_punter Pƙed 3 lety +699

    It’s so fascinating to know that there were creatures so similar to us. We study all these other animals with related species but to realize we had them too just blows my mind.

    • @pterodactylbull
      @pterodactylbull Pƙed rokem +7

      Creatures tho? Geez people so out of touch. Do you consider yourself a creature
.?

    • @Small_child_punter
      @Small_child_punter Pƙed rokem +69

      @@pterodactylbull out of touch? They’re an extinct species. They’re no longer capable of being upset over words.
      Am I NOT a creature?

    • @RM-lu1kx
      @RM-lu1kx Pƙed rokem +4

      I thought every
      Living thing is related?

    • @21LAZgoo
      @21LAZgoo Pƙed rokem +3

      denisovans were smartest, they invented high speed drills 40,000 years ago

    • @jonathan_420
      @jonathan_420 Pƙed rokem

      @@pterodactylbull snowflake

  • @jawaharnamburi4202
    @jawaharnamburi4202 Pƙed 2 lety +5

    # Anthropology is a very interesting subject..the more I study human evolution, I certainly feel like knowing more about the fascinating story of human evolution..!!

  • @kashmiragolder7513
    @kashmiragolder7513 Pƙed rokem

    Your sense of humour eg punch lines in between knowledge sessions is op đŸ€Ł , Nice and unique indeed 😎

  • @rebelbeammasterx8472
    @rebelbeammasterx8472 Pƙed 7 lety +388

    So Humans are Elves, and Neanderthals are Dwarves, just less extreme.

    • @samc.319
      @samc.319 Pƙed 7 lety +34

      And now we're Dwelves.

    • @bajza6046
      @bajza6046 Pƙed 7 lety +9

      Neanderthals are dwarves, and humans are humans

    • @quackmcduck6646
      @quackmcduck6646 Pƙed 7 lety

      Vincent Van Gogh That'd make the next level of evolution Elves. Great

    • @MrGollum1996
      @MrGollum1996 Pƙed 7 lety +6

      RebelBeamMaster X84 neanderthals were dwemer (dwarfes in the elder scrolls: skyrim not really much smaller, their armour fits nords...) and humans are high elfes.
      They disappeared of misteryous reasons like dwemer.

    • @willywanker6239
      @willywanker6239 Pƙed 7 lety +11

      we probably murdered an entire race to extinction. we are not Elves.

  • @MerinFR
    @MerinFR Pƙed rokem +6

    So when we kill each other, we literally make ourselves 1 person closer to human extinction

    • @SlavJerry
      @SlavJerry Pƙed rokem

      or minus death by birth of that day

  • @cosmicolivia7674
    @cosmicolivia7674 Pƙed rokem +1

    I did the 23andme kit and was sad to find out that I have fewer Neanderthal variants than most other users. Happy they can still live on in some of us though!

  • @You-zo4zr
    @You-zo4zr Pƙed 4 lety +1293

    "Its not the size, its how you use it.”😉

    • @wmfife1
      @wmfife1 Pƙed 3 lety +26

      Brains weren't the only body part made larger through, *ahem * "Natural Selection", unquote. And if you think I'm just talking about one gender, think again. Look a little higher. All humans make choices. *wink *

    • @TheLestad88
      @TheLestad88 Pƙed 3 lety +5

      We are talking about brain

    • @tal3270
      @tal3270 Pƙed 3 lety +14

      I have micro pp what do I do

    • @BiggusDickus.
      @BiggusDickus. Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Well considering they are more robust built than us the part your talking might be bigger. After all Tall doesn't mean you'll always have a bigger wiener.

    • @sayhowling
      @sayhowling Pƙed 3 lety +8

      cries in asian

  • @ghostdeep2542
    @ghostdeep2542 Pƙed 7 lety +1610

    If Neanderthals don't still exist then explain that caveman from those geico commercials ...

  • @ricromo
    @ricromo Pƙed 2 lety

    Thanks very much for the Portuguese subtitles.

  • @EEEMUS
    @EEEMUS Pƙed 2 lety

    Always amazing, thank you~~\!!

  • @clover-il7tf
    @clover-il7tf Pƙed 4 lety +1953

    If they were still around, just imagine the whole other level of racism that would happen. I’d rather not have that happen.

    • @sterloin
      @sterloin Pƙed 4 lety +434

      You can’t be racist to a different species, only speciesist.

    • @ls200076
      @ls200076 Pƙed 3 lety +99

      @HorizonGaming791 Bro, Humanity above everything bro.
      Purge the xenos.

    • @broederharry2534
      @broederharry2534 Pƙed 3 lety +83

      They are a different species so you would probably be eating them.

    • @AllAdaeze
      @AllAdaeze Pƙed 3 lety +10

      HorizonGaming791 they are humans dummy

    • @m.damarsr9863
      @m.damarsr9863 Pƙed 3 lety +164

      humanity would probably be less racist to one another because they have one common enemy, neanderthals

  • @joijjjoijj8697
    @joijjjoijj8697 Pƙed 5 lety +756

    "its not about the size, its how you use it".

  • @SombreDiamant
    @SombreDiamant Pƙed 2 lety

    The *XTINCT at 3:57 got me rolling, hilarious !

  • @ricodelpiero1697
    @ricodelpiero1697 Pƙed 2 lety

    Bro I love your videos

  • @tawon1984
    @tawon1984 Pƙed 7 lety +504

    Could you imagine how buff a Neanderthal bodybuilder could get if they were still around today. They probably would dominate in most physical sports nowadays đŸ’Ș

    • @jilliansmith7123
      @jilliansmith7123 Pƙed 7 lety +72

      Have you given Arnold a good long look?

    • @tawon1984
      @tawon1984 Pƙed 6 lety +13

      Jillian Smith Arnold was big but nowhere as big as the pro's of today.

    • @tawon1984
      @tawon1984 Pƙed 6 lety +56

      sike notreally That would be crazy if a Gorilla was taught to lift weights. He would be massive. We then should pass him off as a linebacker, I bet he could bust right through the O-line with ease đŸ’Ș🙈🙉🙊

    • @sikenotreally1051
      @sikenotreally1051 Pƙed 6 lety +41

      acctualy the "modern human" was black and the neanderthals white but hey some acctualy believe neanderthals had a higher IQ

    • @aohige
      @aohige Pƙed 6 lety +35

      Except any sports involving extensive running. The Neanderthal body is not made for fast running.

  • @brianlinville2313
    @brianlinville2313 Pƙed 5 lety +127

    I did a presentation on this topic in college years ago, before CZcams was a thing. One of the main, though seemingly unlikely differences, is neanderthals didn't have protruding chins like modern humans have. Chins support muscle attachments for more complex speech. Spreading ideas and innovation through verbal communication is a big part of why humans progress technologically faster than any hominid species on Earth.

  • @MysticMylesZ
    @MysticMylesZ Pƙed rokem +5

    4:38 considering that happened to a tribe it's not that crazy to think we gave them a cold or similar contagious thing they couldn't fight.

  • @chrisorlando9993
    @chrisorlando9993 Pƙed 2 lety

    i subscribe i just love youre videos

  • @RainAngel111
    @RainAngel111 Pƙed 3 lety +134

    I think one of the most interesting things is how we apparently forgot about the other species we lived alongside, like Neanderthals. Maybe that's a sign that we just thought they were different looking humans

  • @OGrupxe
    @OGrupxe Pƙed 3 lety +84

    "Why did Neanderthals dissappear?"
    Homosapiens: *a s s i m i l a t i o n.*

    • @ZephriusOrcanius
      @ZephriusOrcanius Pƙed 3 lety +10

      More like assassination

    • @taddurrenberger3672
      @taddurrenberger3672 Pƙed 2 lety +5

      "We are the BORG, you will be assimilated... Your biological and technilogical culture will adapt to service us ... Resistance is Futile...."

  • @tubsworld-authorgerneldarr3106

    Good info bro👑🎯🌏đŸ—ș🏆

  • @ChrissChoreo
    @ChrissChoreo Pƙed 2 lety

    Beautiful đŸ‘đŸŸ #StayCurious

  • @treypettit5394
    @treypettit5394 Pƙed 4 lety +249

    "if brains were everything" should be if "brain size were everything." The Brain is everything that allows humans to be humans but it's thought to be neuron concentration/number instead of size which makes humans unique.

    • @xowishuwereherex
      @xowishuwereherex Pƙed 3 lety +13

      Also remember the two hemispheres of the brain have to have the correct amount of transmitters to allow the two halves to communicate to process the environment and knowledge around them. Stupid people don’t have the ability to calculate information as fast. The human species has a brain like a flesh version of a computer. The fastest ram and processor provide an advantage over the slowest ram and processor. So if we compare the same amount of mass and pathways between the two people have one watching nothing but reality tv for 18 years and have the second one exposed to all of the information known to mankind since the beginning the “educated” person will have most of the brain filled with the knowledge and be able to converse with you about it. The other person will gossip about the garbage tv and couldn’t wipe their ass properly. Which explains why our society is in such dire shape now.

    • @dodoarks3186
      @dodoarks3186 Pƙed 3 lety +5

      Chill nerds this isn't science class nobody knows wtf your saying

    • @ysraelmelendez806
      @ysraelmelendez806 Pƙed 3 lety +5

      -The modern human brain is more rounded than that of the first homosapies, which makes the contact of different brain areas more effective.
      -In the human brain, von Economo neurons (NvE) are more abundant than in other animals with large brains, such as primates, elephants, dolphins and killer whales. These neurons are longer and have a single dendrite. So it can connect areas further away from the brain and transmit information faster. That in theory allows for higher levels of abstraction.

    • @ysraelmelendez806
      @ysraelmelendez806 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@xowishuwereherex It is true. It is not only the capacity of the hardware, but also the quality of the software that is installed.

    • @xowishuwereherex
      @xowishuwereherex Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@ysraelmelendez806 Heaven help the MAGA tRumpers they are an example of both defective hardware and software. The human species regression into the classical cave man of the 18TH century before the scientific method was used by archaeological studies and the other sciences in research of extinct species.

  • @marinaamir7077
    @marinaamir7077 Pƙed 5 lety +215

    0:50 is me when I erase the correct answer on an exam question to replace it with a wrong answer

  • @thirdlife911
    @thirdlife911 Pƙed 4 měsĂ­ci +1

    It’s interesting how his theory and the why files is quite a bit different

  • @simpleskoi
    @simpleskoi Pƙed 2 lety

    0:59 when it says epic fail i thought someone was outside MY ROOM THE AUDIO SOUNDED TOO REALISTIC IN MY EARPHONES AHHH
    edit: every time i listen to it i keep jumping out of fright now even tho ik it’s coming lol

  • @95TurboSol
    @95TurboSol Pƙed 5 lety +2448

    Neaderthals didn't go extinct, they all moved to Washington DC.

    • @stevenmitchell1
      @stevenmitchell1 Pƙed 5 lety +74

      They are probably mostly located in the US Midwest and the American South, actually.

    • @philsurtees
      @philsurtees Pƙed 5 lety +160

      @@stevenmitchell1 There's one in the White House right now...
      :-P
      Seriously though, it's funny when someone uses the term Neanderthal to imply that someone is stupid, because they had bigger brains that us.

    • @mistersm
      @mistersm Pƙed 5 lety +1

      95TurboSol 😳

    • @somegirl4631
      @somegirl4631 Pƙed 5 lety +1

      đŸ€ŁđŸ€ŁđŸ€ŁđŸ€Ł

    • @anthonyp3113
      @anthonyp3113 Pƙed 5 lety +7

      Cringe

  • @ladymarmalade9101
    @ladymarmalade9101 Pƙed 5 lety +477

    Neanderman didn't die out, they weren't that populous so the few who were there bred with homosapiens and became a new blended ethnicity. Sort of like Louisiana creoles and Latin Americans. That's why you can still find their dna in modern man.

    • @ziomalisty
      @ziomalisty Pƙed 5 lety +18

      Exactly!

    • @krissypremium1512
      @krissypremium1512 Pƙed 5 lety +14

      You are stupid...

    • @okay5573
      @okay5573 Pƙed 5 lety +16

      That sounds a bit over-dramatized, but what do I know. You might be correct

    • @ladymarmalade9101
      @ladymarmalade9101 Pƙed 5 lety +2

      king last
      best compliment I've heard in days. thanks

    • @dannyboywhaa3146
      @dannyboywhaa3146 Pƙed 5 lety +19

      VO1D_Legend lol non sub-Saharan African humans and between 1-4% with some odd anomalies at 6%... also the Neanderthal genes have faded out of East Asians - though they did have them originally etc... Polynesians have Denisovan dna at 6-8% as well as the archaic Neanderthal dna that has faded out...

  • @marvinschmitz3442
    @marvinschmitz3442 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    When my Dad passed away I had an opportunity to look at his head and it looked like an explanation of what archialogist say what the neanderthal looked like. And I have been told I look like him.

  • @donevans1884
    @donevans1884 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    good video

  • @madotsuki_mk1
    @madotsuki_mk1 Pƙed 7 lety +97

    "But that's New York for you" says he, while showing footage of Moscow subway.

    • @IvanOoze1990
      @IvanOoze1990 Pƙed 6 lety +2

      It's mean to compare the Brazilians to Gypsies. and as for India, maybe their society would be better if it were not for the highest concentration of Gypsies in the world being located in Bangladesh.

    • @imperialguardsmen8543
      @imperialguardsmen8543 Pƙed 5 lety

      Joshua Pierre What?

  • @sludgeman2597
    @sludgeman2597 Pƙed 5 lety +511

    I kind of look like a Neanderthal, so I guess I'm a survivor.

    • @migorima5989
      @migorima5989 Pƙed 5 lety +26

      dont be to hard on yourself :(((

    • @trip_0106
      @trip_0106 Pƙed 5 lety +17

      same. I have Those exact features of a neanderthal he mentioned in the video.

    • @SableTdragon
      @SableTdragon Pƙed 5 lety +6

      Good!👍you can easily survive in wilderness :D

    • @cyanide2813
      @cyanide2813 Pƙed 4 lety +1

      i have the same head shape

    • @ahsanrahib9958
      @ahsanrahib9958 Pƙed 4 lety +5

      I'm attracted to them.

  • @madijayne92
    @madijayne92 Pƙed měsĂ­cem +2

    maybe it was enemies > friends > lovers > enemies again

  • @bibi_blue99
    @bibi_blue99 Pƙed 2 lety

    the Xtinct boy band joke is top tier ngl

  • @laurenrico1569
    @laurenrico1569 Pƙed 5 lety +720

    they didn’t disappear. my dads in the living room

    • @kaiser4883
      @kaiser4883 Pƙed 5 lety +15

      You are so corky relatable and funny lmaoo emoji bout to watch my 55 vine compilation of the day

    • @cameronmerriman981
      @cameronmerriman981 Pƙed 5 lety +27

      Doesn’t that make you one then stupid haha

    • @JBomb517
      @JBomb517 Pƙed 5 lety +4

      No I get it lol. Has me questioning how much neanderthal DNA I have in me. My dad was a hairy beast and I got it from him. There's also a reddish tint to my hair in certain lights. Great great grandfather had red hair lol... hairy too!!! Wondering also if hairy people in general have more of that DNA in them..

    • @cameronmerriman981
      @cameronmerriman981 Pƙed 5 lety

      JBomb82 no but by your logic you definitely are bud haha 😂

    • @Ahhdjx
      @Ahhdjx Pƙed 5 lety

      Lauren Rico Yeah and my mom is in the living room. 😠😑

  • @nickvargas4999
    @nickvargas4999 Pƙed 4 lety +157

    I wanna go back in time and see how things were

    • @WTF-yt9js
      @WTF-yt9js Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Be careful! You will make a paradox.

    • @honestman7087
      @honestman7087 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      @@WTF-yt9js nah time can't be changed

    • @MarioMarioBW
      @MarioMarioBW Pƙed 3 lety +3

      @@honestman7087 That depends on a certain thread of nonsense.
      Time travel assumes that the time traveler is actually going somewhere 'new.' However, for nothing to change would mean that every "change" they make has already occurred historically, as in they had already been there 'before' the journey took place. The assumption that time woudn't change would hypothetically requires that Nick already experienced the adventure in the past his younger self wants, already having an influence on time back then, far before he even had the capability to go back in time in the future. There's no fear of a paradox since absolutely everything they do, no matter how meddlesome or malicious, is allowed and already part of unknown history relative to us in our present.
      This hinges on the possibility that the technology and such brought back returned to origin as soon as they got there, or they didn't possess anything that would cause any drastic change by the point in which they returned or died - like the time machine, tools, food, clothes, et cetera were miraculously melted by an active volcano. Not to mention the loose guarantee that they would perform the exact actions their supposed past self performed, becoming the person necessary to do so. This also requires that nothing they do would prevent them from being born and time travelling in the first place.
      All of which conflict with the previous statement that anything goes and nothing can change. Of course, I'm just spit-balling here.

    • @fuseydunae397
      @fuseydunae397 Pƙed 3 lety

      @@MarioMarioBW time is just an illusion,there is no going back in time.

    • @MarioMarioBW
      @MarioMarioBW Pƙed 3 lety

      @@fuseydunae397 Yeah, I was just being hypothetical like sci-fi, assuming that somehow isn't a fact just for the fun of it. Ya know, proposing an impossible scenario as if it could actually happen.

  • @elenafoleyfoley168
    @elenafoleyfoley168 Pƙed rokem

    Thank-you đŸ™đŸ»

  • @dochmaplecut
    @dochmaplecut Pƙed 2 lety +8

    "or maybe we just gave them an extinction-level of the flu"
    smh...this is exactly what is happening now

  • @QuackSuperStar
    @QuackSuperStar Pƙed 7 lety +579

    Last time i was this early there was still neanderthals around

    • @sr-hd3bz
      @sr-hd3bz Pƙed 7 lety +7

      Dylan Kwak thats a long time ago man lol

    • @zasmrcaveman5725
      @zasmrcaveman5725 Pƙed 7 lety +3

      Dylan Kwak wtf😂

    • @bripi244
      @bripi244 Pƙed 7 lety

      Dylan Kwak too damn epic man lol

    • @besmart
      @besmart  Pƙed 7 lety +16

      Finally a good take on the "last time I was this early" comment. Well played!

    • @QuackSuperStar
      @QuackSuperStar Pƙed 7 lety +2

      Thanks!

  • @sirnoname6943
    @sirnoname6943 Pƙed 4 lety +414

    Short answer: we killed all the other human species

    • @ls200076
      @ls200076 Pƙed 3 lety +13

      @HorizonGaming791 Well, knowing Humans, we do.
      Especially if you didn't know it was another species. Bet our ancestors didn't know it was another species.
      Just another tribe that looked like them and ate the same food. Hostile? Don't know. No reason for them to think they were a different species. Just another tribe.

    • @rededed2136
      @rededed2136 Pƙed 3 lety +7

      Bright chi 2 yes, monkeys are not our ancestors, we share a common ancestor

    • @fazebooce8767
      @fazebooce8767 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Bright chi 2 bruh

    • @Megalaglag
      @Megalaglag Pƙed 3 lety +2

      elektron117 they probably killed themselves via, cross breading and being so far away

    • @yYSilverFoxYy
      @yYSilverFoxYy Pƙed 3 lety +11

      Or had sex with them. The neanderthals didn’t die out, we are neanderthals to some extent.

  • @Gina-ch1ij
    @Gina-ch1ij Pƙed 2 lety

    whoever edited this needs a raise

  • @kevinrodriguez9251
    @kevinrodriguez9251 Pƙed 2 lety +6

    I'm studying History and I studied a little of the first humans. From what I studied, the most possible reason why the other groups of humans died was because of the adaptation.

    • @infantrygrunt44
      @infantrygrunt44 Pƙed 2 lety +3

      Thats a pretty vague comment. "because of the adaptation?
      Who and/or what is adapting to what?

  • @Idothinkysaurus
    @Idothinkysaurus Pƙed 6 lety +295

    Personally, I like to think we bred Neanderthals out of existence, as migration caused them to dwindle in number, and we just ended up getting funky with them at the same time. It'd be interesting if that were the case, but we may never know.

    • @apeman2035
      @apeman2035 Pƙed 5 lety +20

      More likely we killed them off with
      A virus they had no immunity against

    • @technicalineptchic8413
      @technicalineptchic8413 Pƙed 5 lety +38

      Technically that's part of the reason why they disappeared. The other factor is that modern humans were more adept at adapting to the ever-changing environment at that time.

    • @user-lu4xp7iv8c
      @user-lu4xp7iv8c Pƙed 5 lety +3

      APE MAN that’s really reasonable, considering things like that have happened hundred of years ago. Good thinking m8👍

    • @MrAapasuo
      @MrAapasuo Pƙed 5 lety +3

      I steel your food cause I’m a Ravenclaw
      In natives case however it was due to europeans domestic animals that had given them immunity to many diseases, as those jumped from animals to humans. In Neanderthal times nothing like that existed. Probably we had cases where some Neanderthals were assimilated to humans and others where they were killed in tribal wars. Though we may never know.

    • @uberlisk
      @uberlisk Pƙed 5 lety +18

      I personally think that what killed off the Neanderthals was in-breeding. Their good traits, the ones that they had evolved for, were being overshadowed by their flawed, recessive traits. As the creator speculated, they were simply doomed. However, there's an effect at play here that saved them, or at least the best parts of them: hybrid vigour. This is an effect where two or more different groups of breeding stock, highly specialized and inbred, as well as capable of producing fertile offspring, interbreed. Within just a few generations all of the recessive genes are bred out or buried under dominants, resulting in the very best of both breeding pools traits being expressed. This can best be evidence in dog breeding today; if you take two pedigree dogs and breed them together, you end up with a mutt that very often has the best qualities of both parents and very little or no predispositions to the problems that plagued their parent breeds. It's likely that the Neader-Sapien children were superior to both of their parents in many regards, and in time would have out-competed them as well.

  • @NEKROLAVS451
    @NEKROLAVS451 Pƙed 7 lety +59

    Is it only me that I think that all these creatures from mythology such as dwarfs giants etc can have some roots in extinct human species?

    • @16Meily
      @16Meily Pƙed 7 lety +2

      DAMNNNN.... That's deep

    • @julienielsen3746
      @julienielsen3746 Pƙed 7 lety +1

      There is and has been no other species of man, only different races.

    • @lizzychrome7630
      @lizzychrome7630 Pƙed 7 lety +2

      Um, I thought that was kind of common knowledge.

    • @harmonheater4377
      @harmonheater4377 Pƙed 7 lety +2

      that is untrue. there is only one race. there may be multiple ethnical groups that most people incorrectlly refer to as different races. and wrong again, there usd to be subspecies of homo sapiens, homo floresensis is considered to possible be one of those subspecies

    • @bogdanbogdanoff5164
      @bogdanbogdanoff5164 Pƙed 7 lety +2

      Lies unsupported by evidence. Check this out and explain since when
      "ethnical groups" change your bone structure.
      s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/49/34/76/4934762be89367066f114e37c7b837eb.jpg
      Also
      a reminder that ethnical group can refer to ex. germans and poles,
      despie the fact that they have little difference in morphology (or
      looks), so it's a cultural and linguistic difference.

  • @cherilynnfisher5658
    @cherilynnfisher5658 Pƙed rokem

    Really fun and intelligent vid.
    BSC/PHDS/8&3

  • @XaeroDegreaz
    @XaeroDegreaz Pƙed rokem

    @3:42 - What is this video clip from? Dude appears to be speaking and doing sign language at the same time as he's teaching math, or something :D Looks awesome.

  • @Master_Therion
    @Master_Therion Pƙed 7 lety +2685

    It's a shame that we are "the only humans left." Because I think our extinct cousins must have been "all right."

    • @ratboii7656
      @ratboii7656 Pƙed 7 lety +147

      I love you and I hate you

    • @wedeldylan
      @wedeldylan Pƙed 7 lety +343

      Lmfao racism is still a major issue today, imagine if there were actually different species of us

    • @deathhawk7114
      @deathhawk7114 Pƙed 7 lety +212

      People will make war over the smallest differences, so I imagine the racism would be a lot worse.

    • @simonruszczak5563
      @simonruszczak5563 Pƙed 7 lety +95

      "all right" , maybe that's why none are left today.

    • @pauljones3017
      @pauljones3017 Pƙed 7 lety +49

      We would have merged as one species by now. If not, our rivality would have condemned one of us to extinction.

  • @codyfabulousyt4920
    @codyfabulousyt4920 Pƙed 5 lety +412

    I would like to see a movie like jurrasic world but they brought back Neanderthals
    Life, finds a way

    • @ArtofLunatik
      @ArtofLunatik Pƙed 5 lety +9

      CodyfabulousYT theres a movie called "encino man".

    • @thewatcher6821
      @thewatcher6821 Pƙed 4 lety +4

      Watch the news
      The place is called "Florida"

    • @Mirhaus
      @Mirhaus Pƙed 4 lety +1

      I recommend Isaac Asimovs' short story "The ugly little boy" (or its novel expansion by Robert Silverberg), which is about a neandertal boy brought to modern times by timetravel. It's also amusing to read because you can see how people viewed prehistory and neanderthals a couple of decades ago.

    • @twixxsticks2806
      @twixxsticks2806 Pƙed 4 lety

      Just watch the croods bruh

  • @SuperRJ2012
    @SuperRJ2012 Pƙed rokem +10

    "I learned I carry a gene that lets me smell asparagus in my pee".. Wtf. I just ate asparagus not too long ago and that same week I was wondering why my pee smelled really weird. Lol crazy i found that out just looking randomly at one of your old videos 😂

  • @zvonimirleko2131
    @zvonimirleko2131 Pƙed 6 měsĂ­ci

    Very nice

  • @itsme-rc1nn
    @itsme-rc1nn Pƙed 4 lety +206

    we're just some apes that got experimented by aliens

  • @TheEpicGamerSubscribe
    @TheEpicGamerSubscribe Pƙed 4 lety +211

    They are still around, the father of my wife is one of them

  • @InnovationInsider1
    @InnovationInsider1 Pƙed 3 měsĂ­ci

    2024 and i still love coming back to watch this video!

  • @MrRennen
    @MrRennen Pƙed rokem

    Its like mixing Light and dark colors, the more stronger pigment means it will be more that color but still have a hint of another color

  • @puppylove42
    @puppylove42 Pƙed 7 lety +71

    "They live inside us"

    • @TonyAA33
      @TonyAA33 Pƙed 7 lety

      puppylove42 lol

    • @gigsandbusking8959
      @gigsandbusking8959 Pƙed 7 lety +7

      You are so right, DNA from all your past lives within you, it helps you not make the mistakes they made, animals and birds run from us because their DNA tells them humans are dangerous while on an uninhabited island they don't run from us because their DNA has no warnings about us, also maybe why we have phobia's, our ancestors passing on a warning, if you want to go deeper then remember all the things that stain your brain are bad events, never good ones but only bad ones, that is to make sure you can avoid the same thing in the future and this is also passed through DNA.!

    • @richardwalton6993
      @richardwalton6993 Pƙed 7 lety +3

      Gigsand Busking
      In the human condition, in the vast majority of individuals, "bad behavior" or "good behavior", isn't written in your DNA. Sadly, via the convenienced propaganda of some notable Latter-day political scoundrels, this notion is the quasi-anthropological dialectic of the dedicated, quasi-intellectual isolator. It's bad science, it creates still worse culture, and it also seems to be quite contagious.

  • @garrett6064
    @garrett6064 Pƙed 5 lety +351

    Its irritating to hear commentators mention the small tribes and lack of progress in tool making among Neanderthals as way of saying we are smarter.
    First off they did manage to live in some of the harshest conditions on Earth for 300,000 years. And thos conditions necessitated small tribes. In those harsh conditions one can only walk so far in a single day, and will find very limited foodstuffs. Certainly not enough to feed a large tribe.
    Additionally, caves offered a permanent safe haven against animals and the weather. So the impulse to move around would be much weaker. Hence much less trade.
    At this time in Africa people could easily move around and build makeshift shelters as they went. It takes only one man to defend himself against a lion with a sharp stick for that tribe to recognize its importance and because of these of moving the discovery spreads quickly. Whereas with the non migrating Neanderthals each tribe would have had to make this discovery by itself slowing innovation down drastically.

    • @larsswig912
      @larsswig912 Pƙed 5 lety +36

      Underrated post.

    • @Skynet_the_AI
      @Skynet_the_AI Pƙed 5 lety +7

      @@larsswig912 i second and third that!

    • @Luzbel2912
      @Luzbel2912 Pƙed 5 lety +3

      if they were so smart then why are they all dead

    • @sofijeffrey9797
      @sofijeffrey9797 Pƙed 5 lety +5

      This exact same concept is why Greece had city-states and not a unified nation for a while. (Not saying Greeks are neanderthals)

    • @JBSCORNERL8
      @JBSCORNERL8 Pƙed 5 lety +2

      Why does it matter?

  • @Nick-pd2yo
    @Nick-pd2yo Pƙed 2 lety +9

    It is crazy that there are species of animals that just don’t fight or kill each other i can imagine a scenario like that in history between us and a more docile humanoid people

  • @awenoldschwatzanegga
    @awenoldschwatzanegga Pƙed 2 lety

    Ain’t gonna lie, when it panned left to right in the beginning, my boy on the end looked like a damn alien!

  • @yambuhkeder6270
    @yambuhkeder6270 Pƙed 5 lety +178

    What if the neanderthal is the reason why our ancestor afraid of "Orc, troll, ogres, etc" ?

    • @HarshDude126
      @HarshDude126 Pƙed 5 lety +38

      That doesn't make sense. Those mythological creatures were conceived of tens of thousands of years after the extinction of the Neandethals. No one would have known about them when those myths were made.

    • @beepbeep360
      @beepbeep360 Pƙed 5 lety +1

      @@HarshDude126 i saw a reply like dis earlier mostly everyone on earth has 2% of Neaderthals DNA so once Neaderthals become extinct... we become extinct

    • @dangiscongrataway2365
      @dangiscongrataway2365 Pƙed 5 lety +2

      Fascinating idea

    • @Ethan-jd3qt
      @Ethan-jd3qt Pƙed 4 lety +4

      @@beepbeep360 not everyone. Everyone that is not 100 percent african

    • @Dronestriketerrorists
      @Dronestriketerrorists Pƙed 4 lety

      @Philip Thomas a nocturnal..human...hmmm yeah that's called the wrong answer when you think your smart there is literally not one type of ape spices or human species that was nocturnal

  • @ElRincondeAle
    @ElRincondeAle Pƙed 5 lety +849

    Would be good to investigate if smarter people have higher or lower percent of Nearndenthal DNA

    • @chariecemayfield5243
      @chariecemayfield5243 Pƙed 4 lety +5

      @@Joe-kb1sm You're incredibly dumb dude shut u lmao

    • @You-pk6jh
      @You-pk6jh Pƙed 4 lety +45

      If that was true it doesn't explain the thousands of years of no progress.

    • @unidentifiedbipedallifeform
      @unidentifiedbipedallifeform Pƙed 4 lety +111

      Im definitely curious about that too but humanity in general might be better off not knowing.

    • @RobertLemonOfficial
      @RobertLemonOfficial Pƙed 4 lety +92

      That would bring up racism

    • @yansakuya1
      @yansakuya1 Pƙed 4 lety +28

      Considering mostly only those in the Eurasian Continent have Neanderthal DNA... probably.

  • @pedrojioia
    @pedrojioia Pƙed rokem

    Watching 1:02 at the light dark made me drop my phone instantly in fear.

  • @Iamchrisshorts
    @Iamchrisshorts Pƙed 2 lety

    Yesss I want a xtinct album now lol đŸ”„đŸ”„đŸ”„

  • @disgustedcharlie6679
    @disgustedcharlie6679 Pƙed 5 lety +272

    because we invented memes, we evolved.

    • @RodChiefs
      @RodChiefs Pƙed 5 lety +1

      you can see the cave art memes, glorious.

    • @ravtail2781
      @ravtail2781 Pƙed 5 lety

      Noice.

    • @geoffrogers7590
      @geoffrogers7590 Pƙed 5 lety

      No memes are a cancer that is slowly leeching our intelligence.

    • @cedrick25
      @cedrick25 Pƙed 5 lety

      @@geoffrogers7590 This is what happens whrn you don't take your daily does of memes.

  • @mdaly724
    @mdaly724 Pƙed 3 lety +46

    "suddenly" always bothers me in discussions about evolution. It doesn't mean the same thing as the average "suddenly" people are familiar with.

  • @alvinmjensen
    @alvinmjensen Pƙed rokem

    Can't you update it here? There is new knowledge in the area.

  • @ReaM20
    @ReaM20 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    xTint boy band just kills meeee