Joseph Layden, Author of The Unnamed Bears Favor
The monkeys on Gibraltar are imports, an invasive species brought by man.
Neanderthals cannot have really have gone extinct, since there are more people with Neanderthal genes living today than there ever were Neanderthals.
The same can be said of the various subspecies of homo sapiens sapiens which came together between 160,000 and three hundred thousand years ago to become the hybrid species Anatomically Modern Human.
In fact, most subspecies of Anatomically Modern Human are extinct today, such as Iwu Eleru, Balangoda Man and the Red Deer Cave People.
All that remains is a mutt called Post-Glacial Homo Sapiens.
Post-Glacial humans are very different from many Pre-Glacial Anatomically Modern Humans. Neanderthals only went extinct insofar as Pre-Glacial Homo Sapiens went extinct. A hybrid arose and absorbed or assimilated all other hominids on the planet. We are a new subspecies, not so much a continuation of Neanderthal’s competitors. Neanderthal’s homo sapien competitors no longer exist in pure blooded form either.
In other words, Neanderthals and the plethora of Homo sapiens who lived before us did not go extinct, they hybridized with Denisovans and extinct homo sapiens and then were assimilated later by our agricultural ancestors.
The last European pure blooded Neanderthal may have gone extinct 21,000 years ago on the Rock of Gibraltar, but only a thousand years later the Ibero-Maurusian people appeared across the Strait of Gibraltar in Morocco. Their massive Neanderthal introgression is evident in their anatomy, even more than the Neanderthal Hybrids called Cro-Magnon from 20 thousand years earlier in Europe and the Middle East.
It’s very interesting that the first ever subterranean mine was built at this time (20,000 years ago) along the Nile….and the Sphinx may have been built soon after. Erosion tests say it’s over 10,600 years ago and some researchers are saying as much as 18,000 years ago or more for the first work on the structure.
Does the fact that Gibraltar is the last home to wild monkeys in Europe, and may well have been the last place that Neanderthals lived provide any clue as to the reason that Neanderthals became extinct?
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