Comments by "jorge luis barrios mur" (@jorgebarriosmur) on "Blitzkrieg Hypothesis - Neanderthals Annihilated in Brutal Wipeout?" video.
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It is estimated, that, at any given moment, there were no more than 8.000 neanderthals alive at the same moment in Europe.
Meanwhile, the modern human population was estimated in 1.000.000 (most of them in Africa) when neanderthals and modern human first met, and around 3.000.000 when neanderthal got extinct.
Even only 1% of modern humans inmigrating in Europe would have already outnumbered ALL the neanderthals living in Europe.
Even if they managed to overcome an inmigration vawe, and the inmigrants got extinct (like in that cave in France), it was, at best, a tie, because the other 99% of modern humans remained untouched, breeding and producing the next inmigration-wave.
Neanderthals had to prevail EVERY TIME just to live a little bit longer, while all what modern humans needed was to prevail only ONCE........
We should not ask why they got extinct. We should ask how they managed to last for so long.
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