How is the species Homo Sapiens different from earlier hominids?

Question

Many scientists believe that Homo Erectus eventually developed into humans, or Homo Sapiens. Scientists once thought that Neandethals were ancestors of modern humans but no longer do. These hominids appeared 200,000 years ago. They lived in caves of built shelters of wood of animal skins. At one time, they were thought to be rough and wild people. Now scientists think that they may have had religious beliefs. These people found ways to survive the freezing cold of the Ice Age. About 30,000 years ago, the Neanderthals strangely disappeared. About 10,000 years before these people vanished, the Cro-Magnons appeared. Their bodies were just like those of modern people. Scientists think that these people worked with one another in planning large scale hunts of animals. They may also had more skill at speaking than did the Neanderthals. B/C they had these skills, the Cro-Magnons were better at finding food. That may explain why Cro-Magnons survived and Neanderthals didn't.

Answer 1

The answers I believe lie in the larger brain that encouraged the ability to reason and think more like we do. The survival of the fittest.

Answer 2

You may be interested to know that at least 5 Cro-Magnon/Neanderthal-Hybrid skeletons have been found, which are appx. 25-30,000 years old, which would indicate that cross-mating occured...

Since cross-mating occured,

1) The 2 "species" must have resembled one another enough to be motivated to mate, and

2) There must have been a certain amount of communication prior to, and during the mating, as well as during the raising of the hybrid, which would of at least had a homogenous mother, presumably Neanderthal, although it could have been Cro-Magnon as well...

Answer 3

I'm having a hard time answering this after reading yours and these other answers.

   Where did you all get your information from? In the first place Homo-sapien were the people that took over, or were after the Neanderthal, they or we, were the ones that walked after the Neanderthal who walked the earth, for over 160 thousand years. The scientists never thought the Neanderthal were the progenitors of mankind, they always new there was a missing link.

    Hominids, as you call them or Homo Sapins didn't appear 200,000 years ago but about 130,000 year ago. This is when the Neanderthal started to disappear. They now now that Neanderthal was either taken into the Homo Sapien society or was eradicated by Homo Sapien.

    Making this short. There were many more then five Neanderthal remains, there are hundreds or more, from all over Europe, none are complete but, there are simply hundreds of bones.

Answer 4

The main difference is that we exist and they don't. Homo Erectus was proven to be a fraud. Eugene DuBois was an army doctor who went to Java to find missing links. He found six bones that clearly didn't belong together. He then hid the real bones and gave others plaster replicas. He also found normal human bones in the same area. You should research this subject more thoroughly instead of accepting by blind faith what evolutionists tell you.

Answer 5

To answer your question instead of beating around the bush, brain size would have to be one of the biggest differences between Homo sapiens and earlier Hominids.  The average brain size measured from early Hominid skull remains is, off the top of my head like 1200cc's, where human cranial capacity is around 1500cc's.  That's a lot of brain power!

Answer 6

It seems that every few years, different extinct hominid creatures are being discovered that differ in subtle and not-so-subtle ways from modern humans and each other.  The whole subject is rather fascinating.

Answer 7

aleja113 hit this dead on..

the main factor distinguishing modern human froma ll the other human LIKE bones,  is infact skull/brain size..

dont let the other negative posts blind you to the truth,

these people that tell you not to follow evolution blindly.. yet they are the people who follow religon blindly... isnt the uk still going to h3ll because it was excommunicated?! LOL!

religous nuts.. jez

Answer 8

Question, who was around 200,000 years ago to write all this down?