A Day in The Life of a Neanderthal
A Day in the Life of a Neanderthal Our closest extinct relatives - the Neanderthal. A species so similar to the modern human in some aspects but entirely different in others. Researchers have outdone themselves in their quest to allow us to take an inside look at their time here on this earth, and have successfully unearthed an abundance of information about them regarding their diet, hunting patterns, burial rituals, etc. Fossil evidence states that Neanderthals and the modern human evolved from a common ancestor somewhere between 700,000 to 300,000 years ago. Belonging to the same homo genus, Neanderthals and modern humans also inhabited the same geographic areas in western Asian for 30,000 to 50,000 years, yet may have had very limited direct interaction for tens of thousands of years. Exposure to the same climate fluctuations and weather conditions impacted both of these species tremendously, yet only one was able to keep their lineage thriving and alive to the...