A very interesting video....! People often ask me, why do I get up so early? Well, this is one of the reasons why---to learn! To keep an "old" mind alive, NEVER STOP LEARNING!

I have 2% Neanderthal DNA, 98% being west European. I was astonished when I got my DNA results, several years ago. West European, yes, as expected. But I never, for one second, thought I had Neanderthal DNA. At that time, I didn’t know that ANYONE had ANY Neanderthal DNA. I have to say that I was delighted. 2 % isn’t much, but still, Neanderthal lives on in me. 2 years later, my husband got his DNA analyzed and HE had 6% Neanderthal! The remaining 94% was largely east European. It seems to me that the Neanderthal people didn’t go extinct, they just got absorbed into the other, more numerous humans that came calling. They all mixed together, so we still carry some of their DNA. I wish I could find a specifically Neanderthal piece of myself but it’s kind of like the one teaspoon of vanilla in a cake. It’s a flavor, a bit of essence.

The Neanderthals projecting brow ridges and frontal face area being so much larger than moderns would also have given them the ability to take harder blows to their heads without damaging their brains. A big advantage when they had to live a rough and tumble life as closeup big game hunters. best Bruce Peek

They keep saying that the first neanderthal bones were found in the neander valley. But thats absolutely not correct. The first Neanderthal remains were found at sites in Belgium and Gibraltar in 1830 and 1848 respectively, BUT they weren't recognised as such until decades later. The last home of the neanderthal was down by Gibralter.

If anyone wants to see what a Neanderthal looked like and interacted with each other all they have to do is come to my grandparents place at Thanksgiving and watch some of my relatives.

PS: Svante Päänto (b. 1955), the Swedish scientist featured in this documentary, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology in 2022 for his work in evolutionary genetics.

Ayla in the Clan of the Cave Bear book series did a lot to rehabilitate the reputation of the Neanderthal!

wow, this was great, I watch alot of videos, this is the best one this year, so well done

I am so-o-o-o glad the narrator mentions that Neanderthals were human beings. These days, we know so much more about this group and everything about them screams "human being.!". Archaeologists have discovered a fourth example of Neanderthal art, the four locations being: 1) Gorham's Cave, 2) Bruniquel Cave, 3) Ardales, and, 4) most recently, Einhornhöhle. I consider them to be homo sapiens neanderthalensis. They had art, they buried their dead, they cared for their sick and vulnerable (in at east two examples, the persons affected would have died without the love and care of their fellow Neanderthals. And they synthesized the first known substance, a sort of pitch made from birch bark. No, they aren't us, but they do show that there is more than one way of being human. I'm proud of my little bit of Neanderthal--they survived for over 300,000 years in an extremely challenging environment. It remains to be seen if we can do as well.

35 years ago, an international symposium on research related to Neanderthals in the Balkans was held in Belgrade at the Academy of Sciences. During the lunch that was organized for the participants of the symposium, to the astonishment of the archaeologists present, the waiters who served the archaeologists corresponded in appearance, body structure and stature to the idea that there is about the appearance and stature of Neanderthals. Those modern "Neanderthals" served the guests in silence and after lunch they left the hall in silence. That joke was thought up by the organizer of the symposium who wanted to prove that there are still descendants of Neanderthals living among us today, which the organizer of the symposium collected from all over Serbia according to their build and appearance.

Neanderthal expert Ralf W. Schmitz spoke kindly when he said, "...suddenly placed back in a Neanderthal society and had to make a living, we might last a few months, MAYBE." It truly is a big MAYBE. Hours, days, a week at most is reality, the quiet part spoken aloud.

a fascinating fiction story of Neanderthals interacting with humans written by a scientist-Clan of the Cave Bear. It's one of my favourite of all time..

Better to say “We haven’t found any art that we can prove to be Neanderthal,” than “They created no art.”

All those layers of limestone in the Neanderthal valley suggests ancient sea beds. That valley didn’t look the same for 40,000 years. Ice ages also intervened. Climate change also had to play into the dwindling populations of Neanderthals. Spread out populations separated by ice, seas, etc, reduced perpetration of the species. Climate has much more to do with this story.

The question of "why did we survive and they did not" is answered in this video: "We could kill at a distance!". That is a total winner - we could literally eat their breakfast. (Or kill them, and they could not fight back). No other combination of issues could ever match this one alone.

Debe ser muy emocionante hacer estos descubrimientos tan importantes.En España en Burgos están haciendo desde hace muchísimos años descubrimientos muy importantes sobre nuestros antepasados.En La Sima de Los Huesos.Es una excavación inmensa que abarca miles de años. Así poco a poco vamos descubriendo nuestro pasado.

Hi, I am always amazed by the reaction of people’s astonishment about a group of humans that lived over 40,000 years ago as if there is not a modern equivalent amongst us today. Have you not seen, heard or red about Australian Aborigines whose ancestors have lived in Australia for over 55,000 years! Think about it, if they were present there so long ago, think about the journey they must have made to get there from Africa?!! The difference and at the sameness of humans is mind boggling! Cheers mate. Harera

There is a place in Canada known as, Buffalo Jump. When I first learned of this landmark I was told using the most efficient way to hunt an aggresive animal such as a buffalo was using a jump. Meaning humans make noise and drive the buffalo towards a cliff and voila, fresh meat!

The best narrator to ever hear speak.

SHARED! Excellent presentation!

I have Neanderthal in myself and had a weight problem all my life with carbs. When keto, then carnivore and my health has improved unbelievably. Meat is so good for us and forget the veggies and other carbs.

My 6th great grandfather was from palatinate Germany. There was some question if our ancestors were from Sweden. My genetic profile revealed 97% more neanderthal genes compared to the general population. This seems to be consistent with understanding of my family’s ancestry.

Neanderthals produced cave paintings that, in many cases, have great detail. Why are you saying they didn't produce any art???!

This is a very exciting video. I love ancient discoveries especially the kind where the factual truth is pritory number (1). Of which better science-based techniques are derived from. Absolutely fascinating stuff. I can't get enough of it.

It is east to see how previous generations thought of Neanderthals as inferior humans just as many modern humans think of the few remaining hunter/gatherers as inferior. Of course, when babies of the hunter/ gatherers are reared by modern societies, they prove to be equally intelligent. It is unfortunate that the Neanderthals weren't able to become farmers with stable villages, have extra food for thinkers to have time to develop a written language and have formal education for the young. On the other hand, modern humans are doing a very good job of being diverse.

To a certain extent I disagree with the notion, expressed around 25:00, that Neanderthal's technology was static, while modern man's was always changing. A way to measure stone age technology, is to look at the ratio of a kilogram of stone to the number of centimeters of cutting edges that are made. For modern man, this ratio would double every 10,000 years. The cutting edges were doubled between 60,000 and 50,000 years doubled. And doubled again between 50,000 and 40,000 years ago. And kept on doubling, every 10,000 years, until the start of the farming revolution which started about 10,000 years ago, where the pace of change increased more rapidly. In contrast, Neanderthal technology stayed static. It appears their technology didn't start to improve until they encountered modern man, but they were wiped out before they could come remotely close to the stone technology of modern man as of 30,000 years ago. But, what about before 60,000 years ago? For the first two thirds, perhaps three fourths on modern man being on the earth, our technology was as static as the Neanderthals. And was not really better. It seems that 60,000 years ago, some people realized that they should spend some time experimenting, looking for better ways to do things. It seems to have been a cultural revolution, not an evolutionary revolution. Modern man was capable of doing this earlier, but just didn't. The same may have been true of Neanderthal. Why would modern man come up with this idea while Neanderthal didn't? 60,000 years ago, the population of Africa is estimated to have been ten times greater than that of Europe. It may have been just more probable that this cultural revolution would take place in Africa and not in Europe. And not something that Neanderthal was simply incapable of doing. We will never know.

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I found that so incredibly interesting. Thank you.

A wonderfully fascinating presentation. I've had my yDNA sequenced out as far as commercial tests can go. Not unsurprisingly I have Neanderthal and also Denisovian markers in my DNA profile. Thanks for this thought inspiring topic.

Posted 6 months ago at the time of my reading but created in 2010. An excellent production! I would love to see what these folks would do with the knowledge gained in the intervening 13 - 14 years, especially with the Denisovans data and the potential ‘ghost’ predecessors found in the dna.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insight

Excellent documentary, thank you!

I am proud to carry the genes of the magnificent Neanderthal.

Head shape was formed that way because of eating mostly meat. stronger teeth & early growth of teeth…. forward eyebrows because of constant sun rays hitting eyes.

If We, Homo Sapiens, could even survive close to 300,000 years, that would be our greatest achievement.

I’m sure Neanderthals ate anything they could get their hands on like plants and nuts. Even wolves and coyotes eat plants when hungry enough.

Recent paleoclimate studies indicate that the Eem interglacial period was of great climatic placidity, with temperatures that were about two degrees Celsius higher than the actual ones.

I kinda wish some other human species survived just like us. Seems like it would be pretty cool to have different human species living on the planet together.

Krapina is looking like us taking out the competition.

J ai apprécié ce petit retour au passé

Neanderthals were fully human in every way and very intelligent. They were not sub human

Currently reading the Earth's Children series, good books if you can find 'em. Thanks for sharing.

Very interesting documentary, however the conclusion at 31:30 that the Neanderthal had a disabled left arm and a strong right arm, can never be sustained because it assumes that these bones come from the same person. That conclusion is an assumption, because these bones might well be from two different persons.

Una maravillosa investigación ,conocer a nuestros antepasados y comparar con los humanos actuales , gracias por informarnos

Extremely interesting information: I didn't know many of the facts presented here. For example, about the times of genetic mixing of homo sapiens and Neanderthals. But I always guessed about their short childhood, early adulthood, harsh and short life. And also about their art: they say, the Neanderthals left us nothing of artistic products - but it is possible that this inexorable time destroyed all artistic works. And it is quite likely that homo sapiens also exterminated it...

the first fossil of nearndertals were found in Belgium, but they did not define it as a new archaic humans as they did in Germany Neander valley.

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Desde que supe de los neandertales cuando era niña, me pareció imposible que no fueran nuestros antepasados, cómo se crearon razas humanas que no tuvieron conexión entre si? Era demasiado para mí

My son received the same result! It gave me a giggle because l always thought his Dad looked like a modern Neanderthal(a smart handsome one❤) his family had a lot of German.

Quiz for everyone. If I'm a modern Neanderthal, what modern language would I speak? A) A language isolate such as Basque B) An Indo-European language of Asian origin such as Germanic or Hittite :^_!□.

It is like the distinction between wolves and dogs, they can interbreed, and, are basically the same.

Cannibalism isn’t so shocking really. In the Western Hemisphere from North to South, indigenous peoples practiced cannibalism both ritualistically and nutritionally in every region.

I laugh watching this. I’m 84% of Scottish heritage & 16% Irish. I’m 5’ tall with a large rib cage and solid limb bones with large muscles. Add a small spine and small hands & feet, large eyes, broad face, I’m a weird mix. I can see Neanderthal in myself. It interests me, why would they not intermingle with other tribes?

Documentário espetacular! Parabéns !

Wouldn't Neanderthals and Modern Humans Have had dark skin and black hair back 35-40 thousand years ago?

Did my DNA and it just happens that I am one of those that shows a percentage of Neanderthal and what took it deeper is that I also show residue of Denisovan.....I think I am going to buy a mountain and dig a huge cave mansion for myself.

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23:40 Meanwhile today with the "modern" human, we have adults that still behave like children that cannot take care of themselves.

Awhile ago, Nat Geo did a Human Genome mapping project. I submitted a DNA swab and it came back that I had 2.5% Neanderthal & Denisovan DNA, a smidge higher than average. I think that's cool!

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This must be an older video. We now know that there were others in the Far East - a different species: the Denisovans, with whom some of the Homo sapiens mated.

Magnifique épisode...du bonheur sous forme de docu-fictions.

Desde q estudie el paleolítico me produce mucha ternura su existncia + todo lo tuvieron que enfrentar para q nosotro estemos hoy manteniendo esta comunicacion. Además gracias x sus investigaciones

I don't think they "disappeared", I think they "evolved"!!

It makes me happy to have the ADN of these extraordinary people .perhaps also the blue color of eyes and red hair , inherited from them

Wonderful video. I love it.

Soms vind je nog steeds sporen in woorden, zoals de naam Thalens ook de naam Lens ,maar ook de Azteken offerden hun gevangenen en aten hen op,kannibalisme en ook zij waren opeens verdwenen of vertrokken naar elders , Maya/ Inka’s en in vele talen vinden wij tot op de dag sporen van woorden die zo sterk overeen komen met elkaar zoals opoe of mam / mem / man/ men, zelfs het woord kind = vriendelijk of Kin-D ,ook sommige uitspraken zoals in de Azteken,van A tot Z of Jesa Champiurpi als symbolen de paddestoel en duif in het nest ook het woord nest is waarschijnlijk N-EST ook de naam Esther ,Est = tak- her dat kan ook als heer betekenen of Haar ,ook de vraag waarom het woord rots of steen ( hoeksteen Jesa/ Jes-a / Jesus,Jes-us , ook het woord Neanderthaler,waren dat mensen uit een Thal = T-hal of werd er een streek mee bedoelt zoals een Thal/ dal of de spreektaal Ne-ander/ thal/ er ook het woord Thalidomide/ Domein of de muzieksleutel 🎼 Do mi fa sol la si do ,al die woorden / W. OOR. DEN of is het W. Oorden zoals Jakob vertrok naar het westen W OORDEN KORTOM EEN HEEL-Al een lang verhaal ook het woord Hunebed ,ingebed Bethlehem ook vind men Bet in het Alfabet, alles is in woorden vastgelegd, Aarde Erth Orth ,maar het grootste geheim is de drie eenheid ,aarde hemel son Aard e Hem EL/ Son en Heel-AL 😊

Regarding the alleged cannibalism…would it not be logical that the eaten ones might have been eaten by the arriving new homo sapiens? The eater would survive the eaten were dead.

My uncle looked very much like a Neanderthal: prominent brow ridge,slightly sloped forehead, barrel chest, diet of rare meat and fat, he loved fat. I’m interested in taking a DNA test myself to see?

Neaderthals did not disappear, they still lived against us by in-breading....

The flint work they left behind is so beautiful, it could be worn as jewelry. Beauty mattered to them.

Thank you for sharing this.

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When I see documentaries about our early ancestors featuring the remains of an ancient sub-species of human I always wonder if I'm one of their distant descendants. Am I one of the many MANY great-grandchildren of the Neanderthal discovered in the gravel pit or the child of one of the artists who made the stunningly beautiful cave paintings?

I firmly believe every cell past and present makes us connected to the day the first living cell developed.

I got an early impression there would be things even I could correct in this video. To be fair, this video seems dated and learning about prehistoric humans is a hobby of mine. 1:44 Anatomically modern Homo Sapiens are around 300,000 years old as a species. 1:56 Denisovans, Naledi, Floresiensis... Many other species of human existed within the last 300,000 years. We even interbred with Denisovans and Denisovans also interbred with Neanderthals. We have even found DNA from a specimen that is a direct hybrid between a Neanderthal parent and a Denisovan parent from Denisova cave and, of course, we have traces of Neanderthal DNA in all modern humans from interbreeding with them. It is also fascinating to note that Neanderthals' maternal DNA was largely replaced by an African sourced gene from Homo Sapiens and I believe the dating of this event was around 80,000 years ago. 15:07 I would say that Neanderthals were modern humans. Also, if early Homo Sapiens or any current member of our species from a part of the world in which sprinting is ubiquitous were to compete, Neanderthals would not win any long range sprinting event, they were quick over short distances. I will concede that, at this point in the documentary, the information just seems more dated than misrepresentative. Was this documentary made years ago and only posted on this youtube page recently? 17:54 This is a dated perspective, there were a wide range of diets among Neanderthals, some primarily ate vegetation. 23:34 I thought the narrator already established Neanderthals to be a member of our "human" (Homo) genus. There is some debate as to whether "human" refers broadly to the Homo genus or specifically to Homo Sapiens but this seems like flip flopping on the part of the narrator and it irks me. 25:43 *The last glacial maximum, we're still in the ice age which simply means there is ice at the poles year round. I don't believe any form of hominin or even hominid has ever existed outside of an ice age, which is really why climate change is so scary. 45:20 Ok, at this point it's clear that this video is dated. There are Neanderthal genes found in every population of humans on earth today. The quantity and timing of genetic admixture varies but even the peoples of southern Africa carry trace amounts of Neanderthal DNA from admixture roughly 2,500 years ago transferred through populations of Homo Sapiens between the original interbreeding location(s) and southern Africa. What's really interesting is that, even within one cultural population, the region of the genome which is inherited from Neanderthals varies so that individuals are not known to ever exceed about 6% Neanderthal at the very high end of the scale but about 40% of the Neanderthal genome exists across modern humanity. 48:15 I believe some people still doubt this but it is my understanding that some art or "proto-art" if you prefer that term is attributable to Neanderthals and some of the art attributed to Homo Sapiens in Europe may have actually been produced by Neanderthals. Still the most definitive way to know if art was made by Neanderthals is that it would have existed before Homo Sapiens arrived and the form of art that existed there before the presence of Homo Sapiens is mostly simple and whether it is truly art is debated. As for the extinction of Neanderthals, it is often overlooked how much the climate was changing as Homo Sapiens expanded into Eurasia. Even before Homo Sapiens established a major presence in Europe, the Neanderthal population was dwindling. Was it climate change? Was it exposure to diseases from Homo Sapiens that spread across the land faster than Homo Sapiens did? My suspicion is that these two factors combined with an advantage Homo Sapiens (especially those with hybrids in their group) had over Neanderthals as the climate of Europe changed to better suit the lifestyle of Homo Sapiens and the two groups were exposed to each other's diseases.

Fascinante, excelente documentário.

Wow, I can not believe how uneducated I was. I always thought Neanderthals was just a stage in the development of the human race. Then I have done one of those dna tests and discovered I had 2% of Neanderthal gene in me 😮 I had no idea it was a separate species of men. So fascinating!

Absolutely wonderful. Loved it.

I understand I'm in the 93rd percentile of people who have Neanderthal DNA. I proudly identify as a Neanderthal :D

Hate to tell you, but there is no blazing heat in Düsseldorf, Germany no matter the time of year. No need to be overly melodramatic this storing is interesting on its own.

In fact , tneanderthal is the only one human species who is indigenous in Europe .

Very interesting really, but I wonder about a possible explanation for the Neanderthal's extnction, - could it be caused by the fact our ancestors were resistant to a disease that was fatal for them? In Mexico during the conquest the Spanish conquistadores, carried with them the disease of Salmonella, which proved fatal for the Aztecs. So only those who were half breed, survived, the pure Aztecs dissappeared.

Although we are learning more than ever about Neanderthals, there is a profusion of things we do not know. For instance, what if they actually survived, and currently inhabit one of the places that is obscured from us? We're always finding tribes that were unknown to us. The Earth is a large planet with many undiscovered places, despite what the media tells us. When someone makes a firm statement that in later years is found to be untrue, it behooves us to be a bit of a skeptic.

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Wow 👌 thanks Was a few caves whete they used to live in Southern Poland.

3:55 The most famous bones in history are probably from Lucy, not the first neanderthal found.

A fascinating take away was the new finding neanderthal children had a short (or shorter?) childhood. I've always wondered how they had 18yrs for child rearing in such a hostile lifestyle.

Great show!

So so interesting..thank you.

This has to be a some what older documentary few wrong facts an so on they should make a new one we are learning so much more everyday

Hypothesis: the Neanderthal people have evolved a long time apart before they met with the modern humans; so it can be that they were not resistant to a disease that the modern humans carried with them and as result they where extincted.

"Harmless" reindeer? "After the boar, the leech; after he stag, the bier."

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful... If He wishes, He can take you away and appoint as successors after you what He wishes, just as He created you from the descendants of other people.

Maybe you can do a show on our history stolen by the Smithsonian Institute.. So much has disappeared after being handed over to them. We only know what they want us to know..

This helps to understand why sub-Saharan Africans are so different than the rest of us fully developed humans.

Whose to say homo sapiens weren't the cannibals that devoured them

Excellent video.

There are still some humans that have very large brow ridges and receding chins. I believe Neanderthals looked the way they did because they were very well adapted to the ice age that dominated Europe at that time.