Neanderthals remain one of the great mysteries of human evolution. They are the human's closest relatives, but their habits elude us. We are learning more about our hominid cousins every day, but there is still so much we do not know, including the mystery of Neanderthal mating habits, as there is not a lot of evidence to describe what Neanderthal sex would have been like. Thankfully there are new advances in genetic paleontology shining a light on this elusive subject, and the discoveries surrounding ancient human mating rituals continue to develop.
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Well u see when a mommy neanderthal and a daddy neandethal loved one another ......
😅 I was trying to figure out what confused them...
And then nine months later, they get a visit from the Leptoptilus robustus....
Hahaha! Good one!
You see, when a giant monster decides to take something and there are no police….
...and now they live in Forida, changed the name to Florida Man..
I can’t even imagine how bad their butts smelled
Wtf bahahahaha
Maybe like a homeless person. Lol
😂
@@classicarahWWJD
@@classicarah I hope you are just guessing
Imagine showing your mum something on your phone and then you get a notification from one of your subscriptions saying "look at Neanderthal sex lives" That would be hilarious wouldn't it...
Why would it be...
Interesting start to your day, was it?
@@alegnaboulenthal Yeah
@@Dave-bj3pq ‘Cause it’s an unusual and sex-related but not human sex-related thing.. it’s jus weird XD
😂 that actually would be funny
Neanderthals didn't go extinct. We bred them out. We are neanderthals, especially red haired people.
Dna tested 4% and proud
Blonde heads 💯0000th%
2.09% Neanderthal and proud of it.
That last sentence sounded almost personal. Red haired ex, eh? 😂
Red headed Neanderthal here!
I don't think the inter breeding between Sapiens and Neanderthals would have been peaceful and loving. I envision what happens whenever a tribe conquers another tribe.
I agree, and I've read only female Neanderthals could produce interspecies offspring. So yah.
I was thinking the same thing. It wasn’t a “love-match” but rather a more forceful conquering.
You know tribes had interactions other than fighting
Me, too. That’s exactly what I imagine happened.
definitely in some cases but no way 100% of their relationships were forced
They were not completely different species - they were closely related species, or else they would never have been able to interbreed.
U r correct
It's kinda how a lion and a tiger are different species but close enough to make babies. When a human and neanderthals had babies, the males were infertile, and the females were fertile, kinda like how ligers work
@@lilshotsfiredaroundtheworldbecause lions and tigers are very similar species. They make it seem like a house cat and a lion made a baby
I was going to say thing.
@@lilshotsfiredaroundtheworld where is the evidence for this? I don't think it's true, or that it could be proven.
Great video but that damn looped guitar riff was driving me crazy
I didn't hear it my life was fine
We Don’t Get Fooled Again!!
It's The Who,"We Wont Get Fooled Again".
Great now that's all I can focus on..
The Who song
Very interesting. I have lupus. Thank you Neanderthal grandparents.
I wonder if allergies is a thing with Neanderthals too😂
It's always a good day whenever Weird History uploads
Now that's no way to talk about my mother-in-law😮
U mean ur mom😂😂😂
Whats funnier is that some populations actually have residual ancient human dna(its heritable and has been focus of studies)
I knew since I was a child in public school (I'm 27 now), that they were wrong about what they were teaching us about Neanderthals. It sounded eugenics-y to me, even then. I've always been super interested in evolution, since I was very young and it caused problems with myself and my family that I was so into science. They didn't like that I questioned everything. Anyways, I knew Neanderthal had a lot more in common with homo sapians than what was being told because it didn't make sense to me that hsapian would possibly interbreed with Neanderthal to such an extent that its still prevalent in our DNA today. I thought to myself "surely, we had more in common than just genitalia." I knew when being fed images of cavemen that there's a possibility that the depictions and what was being told, were wrong. It didn't make sense that hsapians would actively seek out this "ape-man" so frequently, that we're now the product of our ancestry. Trey The Explainer on yt was very validating and educational for me when I watched videos such as "Disabilities in Prehistory" that shows exactly this. That we have in fossil records, stories. Stories of a now extinct people's who's lives were complex. That those stories we were told of cavemen and brutishness, were simply not true. In fact, I hypothesis that they were highly empathetic and compassionate. What are the chances that out of the little pieces of information we've unearthed from Neanderthal, they tell stories of proven compassion. Fossilization needs very specific conditions to take place, and from the few pieces we have of Neanderthal, we see them loving and mourning. We see them taking care of their disabled. Anyway, I have a rarely high percentage of Neanderthal DNA and guess what? I have Behcet's disease lol and also autism (if that wasn't immediately obvious.)
Can you repeat that please ?
@@ciscotx74 can you stay in your right winged youtube lane? This is a space for people who want to be educated.
I have to agree with you
@kathybrem880 thanks for agreeing with me :)
@@DisabledCursedPrince yeah yeah we know you called the whole thing…if mommy and Dadda would of just took your Neanderthal kink serious who knows what you would of become!!! I’m just glad you can now share your short story of your love of Neanderthal
When Fred yells “Wilma!” at the beginning of Flinstones it always sounded to me like he just learned of her human affair. I mean Pebbles did seem more homo sapien…
Ok who leaked the details of my personal sex life?? I bet it was Grug...
Grug always does this
Lots of assumptions, very little evidence. Biologically "completely different" species can not produce offspring. A mating between a human and a chimpanzee will not produce young as the two are completely different species. In some cases two closely related species can produce young, but these young can not produce young. Mate a horse and a donkey you will get a mule. But a mule cannot produce young. In some cases different "breeds" can produce fertile young, in these cases, the two are considered to be the same species even if they are morphologically they are very different. For example, you can mate a Chihuahua and a grate Dane and get fetal puppies, even though you'll likely need to achieve inseminations artificially, and it may be a good idea to make sure the bitch is the great Dane. This is because Great Danes and Chihuahuas are different "breeds" but the same species. Modern humans and Neanderthals were the same species, but different breeds. There is quite a bit of evidence that Neanderthals communicated with languages as complex as modern humans and there is no reason one could not learn the language of the other, and so they would have had no trouble communicated.
We call that a subspecies. And closely related species in the same genus *can* sometimes produce fertile offspring together. But they became separate species for a reason, so there’s usually a reason why they *don’t*.
Once my friend, while caressing my head, jokingly asked if : ,,I forgot to evolve and if I’m a current resident of Neanderthal?!“, cuz I got kind of a pronounced ledge on the back of my head. I was hella insulted…turns out, I also have Crohn‘s disease. If he ever found out…
🤫shhhhhh. Act stupid, nobody knows. Oh, and stay healthy and look after yourself. From someone who also has plumbing issues so I get it.
Well, this was something. Fascinating, informative, and downright weird. Throughout history, people have relations with family members. Queen Gorgo with King Leonidas who was her uncle, Cleopatra and her brother, the Habsburgs, etc. They kept it in the family.
It was a reoccurring trend also inbreeding caused genetic deformities the Hapsburg chin ??
Yes, the original narrator is back!!!
WH: “It’s so easy, a caveman could do it.” Caveman: “What! …yeah ok, you got us. But just this once.”
Flintstones: Yaba DaBbA Doo
Omg my favorite narrator! Oh how I’ve missed you and your tones 😂
Neanderthal predation theory makes the most sense to me. At one point, there were a dozen hominins existing at the same time (probably more) and then everywhere one shared territory with Neanderthal, the other became extinct. Then Neanderthal and Homo sapien started living together, and the first's population kept getting bigger and the latter's population almost became extinct (as few as 50). But all of the sudden, humans made progress in weapons engineering, communications, and strategic thinking and for the next 20,000 years, Homo sapien populations grew and spread while Neanderthal declined until they disappeared.
Actually everywhere the other species ran into us they became extinct.
@@genighmartin4999 After the choke point on the Levant 50,000 years ago, yes. Before that, it was a different story.
Those neanderthals look a bit like my distant family from Indiana
What a be lovely thing to wake up to on a Sunday morning🫣
Im already ashamed I clicked, I sat looking at the thumbnail for 4min before committing.
A+ video! LOVE IT! Fascinating topic and video!
Their love lives couldn't have been that great if they went extinct.
They wouldn't go extinct if Viagra was invented back then.
The Denisovans in Australia were wiped out by the invading Aboriginals. They killed all the men, boys and elderly kept the young women and raped them. Most likely happened all around the world too.
It’s exactly why they aren’t around 😂😂
They didn't. Check your DNA
That's not how they went extinct. Nor are they really "extinct" given that modern-day humans have a small % of Neanderthal dna. They died out due to humans. The strongest species survives. Illnesses, killing, pushing Neanderthals further and further into a corner. Basically, sex and having kids wouldn't have changed that.
The weird things is, humans could speak end neanderthals couldn't so who knows how that happened. There was likely force involved.
How do you know they couldn't speak
They could speak
youre totally wrong
They could make certain sounds that we do, just not all. Perhaps they did have a form of communication, like sign language
My confusion is this: if ' we ' don't know much about Neanderthal lives, how is it that 'we' know about their sex lives???
Because this channel's BS and they're just trying to promote they're gay propaganda
The mush brains believe anything these days!!!!
Comparing dna and carbon dating their bones? Or long studies of recovered skeletons?
@@chromicapop4595 I concur, that seems to be the primary findings discussed here. So the title was chosen more as link bait than an accurate description of the subject matter.
Because sex sells.
I’ve oddly always been curious about this.
My dude just said ".. we're talking about the kine of mingling adults do when the kids are at baseball camp" 😂
3:49 I have two lucky cats (tortoiseshell cats) named Mojo and Charm, they are amazing and so pretty! Tortoiseshell cats are traditionally considered lucky in Ireland.
They live in Florida, Florida man
So that’s how Pebbles and Bam Bam came to be. Childhood mystery solved.
BamBam was adopted. Some single and unprepared homo sapiens must've heard Barney's and Betty's "wish upon a star" for a child and left him on their doorstep.
Another fun vid. Thank you!
3:30 "Cave swinging" Ha
Really interesting video!
7:35 Reminds me of my microbiology class at Southeast Community College.
The video I’ve waited my whole life for…
Neanderthals never went extinct, they are here in many of us.
How does this not have more views?
Could you do a timeline on the 2000’s please 🙏🏾
The background music is too loud!
7:23 I have a white typewriter of the brand We R Memory Keepers. It is amazing! The big invention during the year Nebraska was established was the typewriter.
Neanderthals *were* human, just as it was pointed out, a different species. It would be like saying a cat mated with lynx as if they were completely different animals when lynxs are cats, just a different species.
If Neanderthals and crop magnons were different species, then surely their genes would have been incompatible and couldn't have produced offspring, just the same as if a human mated with a chimpanzee. I always thought that Neanderthals were human but a different race.
We know exactly...they hit the woman they loved over the head with club and dragged them away.
6:12 Talking about "carrying a big stick" or twig? 7:49 They "boinked" themselves out of existence?
Really interesting information
As much as I love this channel, this is impossible to know
It's not. Most Europeans still have roughly 2% Neanderthal genes to this day. That's how we know.
The fact that surprised me the most is…”no evidence of Neanderthals in Africa”🤔
In, out, repeat if necessary.
The evolution of Samurai weaponry would be good to watch
Anybody else wondering if modern scientists are just trying to save face? "Nah baby, i promise--i'm packing just as much as a Neanderthal!!!!!"
How in hell would anyone have a clue as they left no record.
SCIENCE!!!!
Honestly they just make up shit.
Not written records. But they did leave behind burials, bones, places they lived. Just like Rollen said. It’s takes a long time to piece together things, and as there is more discoveries, ergo, more information, etc.. That’s what science is all about. Building blocks.
Couldn’t we just ask Marjorie Taylor Greene?
😂
Thst comment was EXACTLY what I was thinking. It's just so odd that her brow is so prominent 😊
Ask Biden
@kathybrem880 ask Kathy bc she knows everything. Comparable to God, honestly.
😅😅😅😅😅
You should do a video about Bonobos mating rituals.
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It seems likely we survived less bc of our competition skills and more bc we lived further from sites of volcanic eruptions and the impending temperature reactions
Could you make a video on beatrice cenci?
Yeah, they were around for a while selling insurance for Geico, but I think they're back doing a gig economy...
NPC
I got that 'Neanderthal bump' on the back of my skull, so . . .
The inbreeding among Neanderthals might have been due to their isolation from other groups, and their dwindling numbers in general.
I was thinking the same thing! Especially later on when there were very few of them, I doubt they'd really inbreed much if at all when there were many of them, even if teens stayed within their birth group.
Best narraitor ever! I’d be so bummed if I found out the voice was AI the whole time
He's real. His name is Tom Blank.
@@TH-hy9kr awesome thank you! 😊
I was watching a documentary on Neanderthals some years ago (this century lol), and there was a science class in an American highschool, at a guess the kids have were around 16 years-old, where they did DNA tests just looking for Neanderthal DNA (one assumes with parental permissions). Only the kids with European heritage - to varying levels - had any, as you'd expect. The funniest thing was that the "best-built" lad in the class, and of pretty much complete European heritage (since we left Africa, naturally. I think they were only looking back at so many generations. Not that I know how that's done 🤷🏻♀️), and the one expected to have the most of this DNA, actually was amongst the least. He wasn't fat, just broad and strong-looking; pretty much the shape you'd expect a Neanderthal to be. The one with the most and to the scientists' surprise, quite significantly (IIRC it was something in the region of 6%. The others were mostly in the 2-3% range) was the prettiest, slenderest, blue-eyed blonde. To be fair, she took it well! I hope so she wasn't bullied at afterwards though.
Neanderthal was a little shorter on average but were probably 6x stronger than humans...their rib cage looks way more like a gorilla's than ours. Their forehead is low and sloped and they didn't have a prominent chin. They would not have had the V-shape that we consider attractive today. Much bigger eyes and noses too.
Nobody should be ashamed to be related to our more isolationist and stronger ancestors
3:28 An Amazon card is a great idea for a gift! I see they are available for $15, $25, $50, and $100 denominations.
Anyone ever see the movie ‘Quest for Fire’?
I have not seen that, but I just looked it up (after reading this post) and it looks great!
Yes. It's a great movie. The last scene with the two of them staring up at the moon, knowing their far flung descendants would walk on it some day, gave me a shiver.
@@erynlasgalen1949 It sounds great, though I am not going to watch it now because I now know the ending. I was on the fence right before you said that.
@btetschner I suggest watch it anyway! It was very well done.
@@gothic_oma With promotion like this, it's no wonder the film is not more popular.
That Who knock of bgm was really distracting
This info comes from an old BC-VHS of Stormy NeanderDaniels found in an anaerobic pocket that protected the integritgy of the video.
Can you do an episode on the weird history channels narrators please!
BTW Neanderthals did not come up with the wheel...that happened around 10,00 or 7000 BCE and the Neanderthals were long gone by then. I love you guys but you really should read Clan of the Cavebear lmao
I think they're called "bigfoot" today.
YES! He's back! 🤩
Now do one on the " Strange truth about the folks at Weird History's , sex lives . 😉
Man, thats wild.
Anyone imagining the first encounters as cute encounters and not forced brutalities is likely looking on the smiley side
The stock videos were weird.
Lol the timing on the black hand ontop of the white hand feels rather aggressive.
Genetic bottlenecking in isolated Neanderthal communities might have led to the rise in inbreeding with humans, as we were new on the block. I think our ancestors saw value in taking on their genes, as they were better suited for the frigid, northern climate. We're designed by nature to seek out as much genetic variance as possible to ensure genetically diverse offspring. Point of fact, women can detect whether they are attracted to a man based solely on his body odor. They can also get traces of that individual's health and genetic distinctness from themselves (down to a single gene). We tend to view a life outside of Western Civilization as primal and savage, but we have a much more richer image of the world as it is through scientific study. Both early-humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) and Neanderthals took care of their sick & old, as well as took part in burial rituals. They made their own art and had rich cultures. Life in hunter-gatherer societies are also much more egalitarian as well (see: San people of Africa).
Omg 😮I have Behcets Disease wow didn’t know that
The ’mixture’ between Neanderthal-, Denisova- and Homo Sapiens, described, among others by the Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo.
Why the f did i get notified for this why why why
BRING BACK GRAVEYARD SHIFT!!!!! THAT CHANNEL WAS SO GOOD WHY DID Y'ALL STOP MAKING VIDEOS?????
The neanderthal looked at modern humans and decided that they were tired of being ugly.
4:46 Wth is the dark spot on toe nail?
The Geico Commercial: It's so easy a caveman can do it
This video makes me think about how so many races are so much more mixed now its getting hard to tell what everyone is. Like to the point alot of ppl have a brown complexion that varys from a light color to a slightly dark brown. Idk why this video made me think of it like this. Ppl in the future will prob look back an not be able to "initially " tell.
03.11 I dont think Neanderthal invented fire or the wheel - where'd you get that from ??
Fire yes. Wheel no proof
😂 weird topic.. but had to click it
I love this narrator and I'm always glad to hear his voice, but the music on this one really robbed the enjoyment for me. Its the Dollar store version of a The Who song on a 6 second loop...
For some reason the cutaways to modern humans were particularly funny today 😆
Personally, I wish you guys would stop commenting about the fact that it's a different narrator sometimes the guy needs a break and honestly the other one's aren't that bad stop being so picky. It's honestly kind of rude. And it's 0 feedback. There's nothing constructive about it. If you're gonna comment do something with it.
Yea
I really like that you, the narrator, actually pronounce it correctly! It's Ne-and-er-thal! I really dislike Regular ppl and KZheadrs who say it so stupidly.
That's not how you pronounce it lol.
@@deathbycheese850 Been that way all my life.
Would be cool to have a video about how to pronounce 'neanderthal' as a part of educating people about neanderthals...
Nee and are fall
I am going to watch the Weird History video: x ---TIMELINE 1991---
With ALL of the variations of "sax' that people enjoy now?! - What is surprising , here?
Neanderthals are getting more action than I have in years!
You want to change that ?
Commit a crime and get sent to jail Women seem to be attracted to jail birds 😂
C'mon now... We've all woken up with our arms pinned under a neanderthal, after one too many bowls of fermented apple mush, the day after the big mammoth hunt.
I'm curious as to how they figure humans and Neanderthals couldn't communicate. I get that verbal communication between the two species may have been impossible, but what about some sort of basic sign language?
Regarding "The Neanderthals Doing The Nasty" - one thing is for certain - since Missionaries came into existence relatively recently, there was no 'missionary position'. WHY it is called 'missionary position' makes for an interesting study... 🤔
Haha love how they obviously picked the first stock video from just how Neanderthalish he looked.
6:08 I did feel aggrandized...
Interesting subject thanks.