WILT: Humans and Neanderthals Competed for Survival
What I learned today: We didn’t evolve from Neanderthals.
Somewhere between school and now, I lost track of what the academics think about how we, humans, got here. I didn’t even know that I didn’t know until this article from the latest Smithsonian Magazine.
It says that all humans came out of Africa. That I knew. But it also says that as humans migrated out of Africa, those moving into Europe ran into the indigenous peoples already there—the Neanderthals. Then the two groups competed for resources and supremacy. That’s fascinating.
And when humans moved into unpopulated areas, where they automatically became the top life form, innovation would not be that important. For example, the aboriginal peoples in places like Australia would not have had to invent and develop new ways of doing things because they didn’t face overpopulation and scarcity of resources.