The Smart Neanderthal: Bird Catching, Cave Art & The Cognitive Revolution Audiobook (Free)

Since the later 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a ‘cognitive trend’ (c. 50,000 years ago) led to the introduction of our types, Homo sapiens. Because of this revolution our species spread and eventually changed all existing archaic Homo types, ultimately leading to the superiority of contemporary humans. Roughly we thought.

As Clive Finlayson explains, the most recent advances in genetics prove that there is significant interbreeding between Modern Humans as well as the about The Wise Neanderthal: Bird Getting, Cave Artwork & The Cognitive Revolution Neanderthals. All non-Africans today bring some Neanderthal genes. We have also discovered areas of Neanderthal behavior that indicate that they were not really cognitively inferior compared to contemporary humans, once we once believed, and actually had their very own rituals and artwork. Finlayson, who’s in the forefront of the study, recounts the discoveries of his group, providing evidence that Neanderthals caught birds of victim, and utilized their feathers for symbolic purposes. There is also proof that Neanderthals utilized other forms of art, as the recently found out engravings in Gorham’s Cave Gibraltar indicate.

Linking all of the recent proof, The Savvy Neanderthal casts a fresh light for the Neanderthals and the ‘Cognitive Revolution.’ Finlayson overturns classic narratives of human being origins, and boosts important queries about who we are really.