Durante mucho tiempo imaginamos a los neandertales como seres torpes, brutales y poco inteligentes. Una caricatura que comenzó a construirse después del hallazgo de sus primeros fósiles en el valle de Neander, en Alemania, en 1856.
Sin embargo, las investigaciones han revelado que fabricaban herramientas, cuidaban de los miembros de su comunidad y eran capaces de adaptarse a entornos extremadamente difíciles.
En este vídeo de TED-Ed, Bruce Hardy desmonta algunos de los principales mitos sobre nuestros parientes evolutivos y explica qué pudo conducirlos finalmente a la desaparición.
The biggest myths about Neanderthals - Bruce Hardy
Dig into the surprisingly complex lives of Neanderthals, and explore theories on what happened to our evolutionary cousins.
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In 1856, quarriers working in Germany’s Neander Valley discovered several mysterious fossils. The remains changed hands until being identified as the skullcap and femur bones of something ancient and human, but not quite us. It soon became clear they belonged to an extinct human species— the first ever known to science: Neanderthals. Bruce Hardy explores what happened to our evolutionary cousins.
Lesson by Bruce Hardy, directed by Daniel Harisberger, Team Tumult.
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