It is not clear if Neanderthal men could speak. At least, the structure of their palate allowed them to speak. Neanderthal men were real hunters and hunted in groups. Neanderthal men and homo sapiens began to hunt each other and eat up bodies of defeated enemies about 40 thousand of years ago. That was a period when first homo sapiens appeared in Europe, the land of Neanderthal men. The two peoples coexisted on the territory for 10,000 years. About 30,000 years ago Neanderthal men lived in the south of Spain, in Gibraltar and the Pyrenees, and then vanished without leaving a trace.
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Within the many years after 1856 when remains of Neanderthal men were first discovered in the Neanderthal valley in Germany researchers gave a clear explanation why they had vanished. In accordance with the Darwinism dogmas, Neanderthal men were declared next of kin and predecessors of humans. It was believed that at some stage Neanderthal men smoothly transformed into modern humans, and those who failed to transform just vanished as a result of natural selection and competition between more perfect and primitive species.
These days some researchers state that Neanderthal men merged with predecessors of euhominids. The hypotheses arose from the study of Neanderthal kids’ skulls that revealed some lineament of modern people. Portuguese researcher Joao Zilhao was the most ardent advocate of the theory after he discovered such skulls in Portugal; later similar skulls were discovered in France, Croatia and the Middle East.
In 1997, researchers from the University of Munich analyzed DNA of remains of the first Neanderthal men found in 1856. The study of 328 detected nucleotide chains allowed paleontologist Svante Paabo to make a sensational statement. He insisted that the difference between the genes of Neanderthal men and euhominids were too great to consider them relatives. The information was confirmed by similar studies of remains discovered in the Caucasus (Georgia) in 1999. A new sensation came from the University of Zurich where Spanish researcher Maricia Ponce de Leon and Swiss Christoph Zollikofer compared skulls of a two-year-old Neanderthal man and of a Cro-Magnon man of the same age. The result of the study was that cranial bones of the two kids had been forming in different ways which in its turn proved that the gene pools of both races radically differed.
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