Posted: Apr 15, 2020 12:46 pm
by scott1328
zoon wrote:
Spearthrower wrote:
aufbahrung wrote:They were killed off by disease, at least in my thinking. My theory for a long time is that they were smarter and better adapted but met with a disease. Some sort of bat-flu from living in caves and mixing with bats?



So all neanderthals, spread across thousands of miles, isolated from one and other, all independently got a disease from bats and died out coincidentally with the arrival of early modern humans?..

This does suggest early modern humans had some significant advantage over neanderthals, is there any consensus on what it might have been?

Jared Diamond of "Guns, Germs, and Steel", would hypothesize that the germs carried by early modern man out of Africa is what did in the Neanderthals.