Humans and Our Origins

Interestingly, to me, there is more and more about how Neanderthal's were more inteligent and sophisticated than originally thought.

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It used to be thought that they were in the lineage and went away as we became more developed and evolved. Back about 36 years ago I was having a conversation with a friend who was studying anthropology at SIU and we were talking about prehistoric humans. I suggested that the entire concept of apes to proto-humans to hominids to homosapiens was questionable.

My theory was that there were many varieties of humans and the more adaptive and smart ones continued to evolve. The others simply became extinct. Just an application of Natural Selection. It seems that now this concept is becoming the new idea of human history. Anthropologists have discovered that Neanderthal's were much smarter, sophisticated and social than previously thought. They have discovered remnants of vegetable and grains in the plaque scraped from the teeth of Neanderthals. This clearly demonstrates they used fire and ate not only meat. In Bob's opinion Neanderthals were a completely different family/species of humans and they simply weren't successful in evolving their lineage. Died out and were gone.