Homo Neanderthals Essay

Homo Neanderthalensis Were Neanderthals a distinct species of the Homo Genus, or were they a sub-species of the Homo Sapien? Are modern day humans a product of selective breeding or are they distinctive in DNA to just Homo Sapiens or Neanderthals? To figure this out we will go back to an approximate timeline of over 200,000 years ago in the Pleistocene Epoch, where this fossil, and possibly kin, resided and thrived. As we know and have all come to understand through media interpretation and display, the Neanderthal was once considered to be a primitive brute, with little intelligence, a strong sense of violence with muscle to support each action, and didn’t last long during the age of the end days of the extinctive dinosaurs, better known as the Ice Age. Also, most if not every Neanderthal depicted was always alone in their own world and species in Eurasia, and lived in limestone caves where they were nicknamed, “Cavemen”. While some of this is true, we have to look into the characteristics in which have some tangibility. For starters, the Neanderthal is believed to have an appearance similar to the Homo Sapien, some believe this stems from a common ancestor. And while they may
In accordance to a new study, approximately around 13 million years ago, humans and chimpanzees shared their first common ancestor, based upon the genetic mutation rates for chimpanzees. Also, the chimpanzee and the human are distinctively similar due to the 98.8% shared DNA molecule. The bands on the chromosomes and bundles inside of DNA’s almost every cell, and the 1100 different genes are almost identical. With that being said, humans and chimpanzees are not the same, for 1.2% of 3 billion base parts show distinctions when interacting with the function for each gene. Such examples include the growth and development of intelligence for the human in comparison to the chimpanzee. (Museum of Natural