Neanderthal had a beginning and ending.
My theory on the ending? I think they were mostly groups/clans....who stayed within their group, and inter-bred. So every two or three generations....their IQ level and health declined five percent (minimum).
So around 30k to 40k years ago....as each clan downsized in population (due to health/dimwittedness).....they went extinct.
A few mingled with the modern-human 'series' and kept some of the dna-pool 'alive' but it was an abrupt end for the Neanderthal.
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During their 400,000 years, Neanderthal developed and maintained extensive independent trading and merchant empires:
a) pearls and shells from the Portugal coast were exchanged with peoples in France and Russia, as well as their native Germany.
b) implements from deer of the steppes are in their residential caverns in Spain and Italy.
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As to our destruction, I blame Afrikans.
Ethically and morally, I would be willing to bet Neanderthal (and Denisovan) were opposed to cannibalism.
The Afrikan has no such dietary restrictions.
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According to two DNA test results from two companies, I carry significantly more Neanderthal DNA than standard Northern European Heritage folk.
I am at thirteen percent (13%), most of us are around four percent (4%).
6'3", 220#, blonde, blue-eyes.
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I study Neanderthal history.
I would be willing to bet my people felt successful enough to pity those poor Afrika trespassers.
And the invaders ate them.
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