Describe Neandertal anatomy and behavior, Were Neandertals part of human species, homo sapiens or seperate?

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Answer 1

I think homosapiens and humans are the same.

Answer 2

Neanderthals where a branch of evolution that didn't take.  Most common accepted theory is that they could not adapt fast enough to live through the end of the ice age and the large migrations of Homo erectus.  Last I heard there where no examples of cross breeding between the two species so they simply went extinct.  Also the last time I looked it up I read we where referring to ourselves as Homo Sapiean sapiean.  Meaning we are diffrent from the original Homo Sapieans.

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An extinct hominid species Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, first recognized from fossil remains found in the Feldhofer Cave in the Neander Valley, near Dusseldorf, Germany, in ad 1856.

Anatomically, Neanderthals were somewhat shorter but much more robust than Homo sapiens sapiens. They had distinctive cranial features that included prominent brow ridges, low, sloping foreheads, a chinless and heavy forward-jutting jaw, and extremely large front teeth. Their brain size was comparable to that of Homo sapiens sapiens, averaging about 1600cc. Neanderthal skeletal remains have been found over a wide area of Asia, Europe, and Africa, and are regularly associated with Middle Palaeolithic flint industries that are characterized as the Mousterian. Dates for the skeletal remains and associated industries suggest that the species thrived between about 230 000 and 30 000 years ago. There has been much debate about both the origin and the fate of the Neanderthals. Their origins amongst the European Homo erectus now, however, seem fairly certain, both in terms of the traits revealed by the fossil human remains and the development of the lithic industries. Some scholars believe that the Neanderthal line leads to modern humans, but Chris Stringer and Clive Gamble have persuasively argued that the Neanderthal species was a dead end and that it was replaced by modern humans who evolved in Africa and were better organized and better equipped. See also Homo sapiens.

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The biological classification of modern humans. Homo sapiens is Latin for “the wise human” or “the clever human.” The earliest Homo sapiens was Neanderthal, who developed about 150,000 years ago. Sometimes modern humans are further classified into the subspecies of Homo sapiens neanderthalis (Neanderthals) and Homo sapiens sapiens (Cro-Magnons and present-day humans). (See Linnean classification.)

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Linnean classification

A way of organizing living things. In biology, plants and animals have traditionally been classified by the structure of their bodies, in a descending hierarchy of categories: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. For example, human beings are classified as belonging to the animal kingdom, the phylum of chordates, the class of mammals, the order of primates, the genus Homo, and the species sapiens. The scheme is based on a system developed by the Swedish scientist Carolus Linnaeus in the eighteenth century.

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Answer 5

i hate to complicate things for you, but since two people have already answered that neandertals went extinct, and there is not evidence of cross-breeding, i am going to. not too  long ago, in Portugal, a full skeleton was found that showed evidence of cross-breeding.

Answer 6

If this is your homework, why don't you take out your text book or your library, look it up and write your 500 words or whatever. It should be very simple. I could do this for you right now, but there's a little thing called academic honesty and I highly doubt that you are going to cite yahoo answers.

Answer 7

I can answer this question without copying and pasting from the internet.  There are things out there called books and they would tell you that Homo sapien neanderthalensis is not an ancestor of Homo sapien sapien (humans).  Neanderthals lived at the same time as Homo erectus, but lacked the language capabilities of Homo erectus.  This is why Homo erectus survived and Neanderthals became extinct.