Why Did Humans Survive When Neanderthals Didn't?"

Neanderthals were tough, skilled, and had brains about as big as ours. So why are we still here and they're not? In this video, we follow the evidence from a toe bone in a Siberian cave, a set of eagle talons from Croatia, and a lab in Leipzig to find out why they vanished, and why a small piece of them may still be inside you. Some of these findings are still debated, and the video says so where that applies. If you enjoy simple questions with surprising answers, subscribe for more. SOURCES When the Neanderthals disappeared (Higham et al., Nature, 2014): https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13621 The Neanderthal woman from Denisova Cave, whose parents were related at the level of half-siblings (Prüfer et al., Nature, 2014): https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12886 First draft of the Neanderthal genome (Green et al., Science, 2010): https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1188021 Why small populations may have been enough to end the Neanderthals (Vaesen et al., PLOS ONE, 2019): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.... Neanderthal eagle-talon jewelry at Krapina, Croatia (Radovčić et al., PLOS ONE, 2015): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.... Birch-tar-hafted stone tools at Campitello Quarry, Italy (Mazza et al., Journal of Archaeological Science, 2006): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2006.01... Shanidar 3 rib wound (Churchill et al., Journal of Human Evolution, 2009): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2009... The child of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father (Slon et al., Nature, 2018): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-04... Neanderthal injury patterns: Berger & Trinkaus (1995), "Patterns of trauma among the Neandertals," Journal of Archaeological Science 22, 841-852. Later work questioned the rodeo-rider comparison: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/w... Svante Pääbo's 2022 Nobel Prize: https://www.lindau-nobel.org/nobel-pr... #Neanderthals #AncientHumans #HumanEvolution #History #Science #StickmanExplains