Assertion: neanderthal | /r/CapableOf | go extinct
Facets:
value: in europe
type: LOCATION
value: rapidly
type: MANNER
value: before the agricultural revolution
type: TEMPORAL
value: around the same time
type: TEMPORAL
value: after first meeting
type: TEMPORAL
value: exactly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: No one knows exactly why Neanderthals went extinct and why Homo sapiens survived.
text: Some researchers believe this because Neanderthals went extinct around the same time early humans reached Europe.
text: We do not know why Neanderthals went extinct.
text: Other researchers speculate that Neanderthals went extinct after early humans infected them with deadly diseases after they migrated into Europe.
text: Theories about why Neanderthals went extinct abound, but their disappearance continues to puzzle scientists who study human evolution.
text: Neanderthals went extinct in Europe around 40,000 years ago, roughly 5,000 to 10,000 years after first meeting Homo sapiens.
text: Why did Neanderthals go extinct?
text: When Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago, he said, they likely had been on Earth longer than we have been now.
text: So, why exactly did Neanderthals go extinct?
text: Some would say Neanderthals didn’t go extinct, because everyone alive today whose ancestry is from outside of Africa (where Neanderthals never lived) carries a little bit of Neanderthal DNA in their genes.
text: It's been roughly 30,000 years since Neanderthals went extinct, but we're finally making an effort to learn everything there is to know about our long-dead and closest evolutionary peers.
text: [For scientists,] there needed to be some reason that Neanderthals went extinct.
text: Neanderthals, our ancient cousins who first appeared about 250,000 years ago then went extinct about 40,000 years ago.
text: So, a small-brained human can be forgiven for wondering, why did Neanderthals go extinct while their weird little evolutionary cousins survived?
text: Another possibility is that Neanderthals didn’t go extinct.
text: Their limited genetic diversity suggests they went extinct, leaving no descendants.
text: They went extinct before the agricultural revolution, so they would probably have difficulty stomaching our modern diet, heavy in grains and dairy.
text: Neanderthals are thought to have evolved in Europe roughly 400,000 to 500,000 years ago and went extinct about 30,000 years ago.
text: We also learned that neanderthals were a different type of species that went extinct about 30,000 years ago and that they are not anatomically modern humans.
text: Yet, the neanderthals still went extinct.
text: Why the neanderthals went extinct is an ongoing controversy, however, it has been suggested that anatomically modern humans were able to maintain rapid population growth while the neanderthals were outnumbered, use advanced technology, and that these changes overwhelmed the neanderthals and they couldn’t keep up with modern humans.
text: While this topic still has many uncertainties and the extinction of neanderthals are still a mystery, more research findings in the future can enhance our understandings between the two species and help explain why exactly neanderthals were outnumbered by anatomically modern humans and why they went extinct.
text: Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago—although not before interbreeding with early Homo sapiens, or modern humans.
text: Neanderthals went extinct in Europe about 40,000 years ago, giving them millennia to coexist with modern humans culturally and sexually, new findings suggest.
text: This research also suggests that modern humans did not cause Neanderthals to rapidly go extinct, as some researchers have previously suggested, scientists added.
text: It has long been uncertain when Neanderthals went extinct, and there has been much debate over whether interactions with modern humans might have driven their disappearance.
text: However, more recent findings suggested that some Neanderthal fossils from Europe might be thousands of years older than previously thought, raising the possibility that Neanderthals went extinct before modern humans arrived in Europe starting about 42,000 years ago.
text: To help solve the mystery of when Neanderthals went extinct, scientists analyzed bone, charcoal and shell materials from 40 archaeological sites from Russia to Spain.
text: The overall explanation for why Neanderthals went extinct while we survived, of course, is more complicated.
text: Neanderthals could have gone extinct due to a slight drop in their fertility rates, a new study finds.
text: Neanderthals could have gone extinct due to a slight drop in their fertility rates, a new study finds.
text: Neanderthals are thought to have evolved in Europe roughly 400,000 to 500,000 years ago and went extinct about 30,000 years ago.