Neanderthals vs Homo Sapiens: How Creativity Determined Extinction and Survival
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One of the greatest mysteries of evolution is the extinction of Neanderthals: once among the apex predators of their time, ruling the Earth for some 300,000 years then suddenly dying out – and a new study suggests it might have something to do with creativity.
Theories regarding the extinction of the Neanderthals range from climate change or the homo sapiens outpacing them in terms of population and technology, with these hominids being absorbed into the gene pool of what would be the modern human. However, a team of researchers from the University of Granada identified 267 genes supposedly linked to creativity that gave the homo sapiens the edge over the Neanderthals. They present their findings in the article “Evolution of genetic networks for human creativity,” appearing in the latest Molecular Psychiatry journal. […]
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Video: Neanderthals 101 | National Geographic – October 13, 2017.