Close: people and dogs against Neanderthals. Shipman P.

Neanderthals who possessed a strong physique, a large brain, using complex hunting tools, were the closest relatives of a modern person. About 200,000 years ago, when a person had just begun to migrate from his evolutionary homeland in Africa, Neanderthals descendants of a much more ancient branch of the genus Homo have long settled in Europe. But when a modern person about 45,000 years ago spread in Europe, Neanderthals suddenly disappeared. Since the first bones of Neanderthals were discovered in 1856, scientists are fighting over the question of why modern man survived, and his evolutionary cousin is not. This book contains convincing evidence that the main factor in the death of Neanderthals was direct competition with modern man who came to the same territory. Based on invasive biology, which says that the views closer to invasive predators, it will encounter the greater competition, Pat Shipman monitors the destructive effect of the growing population of a modern type of person: a reduction in the Neanderthal Is, the division of its population into small groups and the loss of the genetic diversity of this species. But not only modern people competed with Neanderthals. Shipman talks about the stunning partnership of a person with the first domesticated wolves-sobaki, the appearance of which coincided with the beginning of the disappearance of Neanderthals. The author hypothesized that the union of two human predators and a wolf made it possible to successfully hunt for large mammals of the ice age, which gave a decisive advantage over Neanderthals, when climate change greatly complicated the life of both groups of nomo.