Scientists to use DNA to resurrect the Woolly-mammoth

[PiKA2001]

Originally posted by RACooper
How do we know that Neanderthal's were dumber than us? After all the had a larger brain than we do...

Just because a certain animal has a larger brain mass than another doesnt mean it is capable of higher intelligence.

[annice22]

There was a reason they became extinct. The world was changing and they were not build for the new world. Just because they (scientist) can bring something back from extinction does not mean that they should.

[Optimist Prime]

Originally posted by RACooper
How do we know that Neanderthal's were dumber than us? After all the had a larger brain than we do...

Because they went extinct.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by annice22
There was a reason they became extinct. The world was changing and they were not build for the new world. Just because they (scientist) can bring something back from extinction does not mean that they should.

How did the world change?

-Rudey

[AKA_Monet]

I am unable to find it now, but there was an article either the scientific journal Nature or Science that stated that the Neaderthals became extinct because they were cannibals...

That is the problem with cannibalism. You eat your own, you can get infected with numerous diseases--mainly prion diseases that are incurable. That is the problem with Kuru. That is how they think the Hopi Indians died off in the Southwest and possibly the Incas.

So Neanderthals ate each other. But their intelligience was extremely high. They buried their dead. They had stone-age weaponry. And they were nomadic. They in fact killed off a large portion of the Mammoths, so it is thought.

However, there is no evidence that there homologous recombination of DNA sequences between the Homo erectus and Homo sapiens sapiens... So no, Neanderthals did not breed with modern human beings for some reason. If so, the offspring failed to thrive--although some folks may disagree with others...

And PiKA2001,

I thought you were brighter than that...