The cause of Neanderthal extinction

Neanderthals may have died out because they did not know how to harness the power of fire at the same level as human relatives.

The solution to the Neanderthal extinction

Cooking fire allows ancient relatives to receive more calories from the same amount of food, thereby allowing the population to surpass Neanderthals. Over time, the population of people with modern anatomical aspects will increase, while the population of Neanderthals will decline sharply.

Simulate the life of the ancient people.(Photo: Flickr)

"The use of fire creates a significant advantage for humans. This is an important factor that causes the number of Neanderthals to decline," Live Science quoted Anna Goldfield, a Boston University archaeologist, for good.

Scientists use mathematical models to simulate the population of modern anatomists and Neanderthals, changes when humans use fire. The results show that modern relatives use more fire than Neanderthal and it is likely that the human population has increased slightly. Along with that, the number of reindeer as food for Neanderthals decreased.

However, according to archaeologist Dennis Sandgathe, there are still many unknown scientific things about Neanderthals, so it is difficult to draw firm conclusions.

Neanderthals were extinct in Europe about 40,000 years ago. The first modern man appeared about 45,000 years ago