Cause Of Neanderthal And Megafauna Extinctions Identified

Around 450,000 years ago in Europe Neanderthals evolved from Homo Heidelbergensis who were giants standing seven to eight ft tall, Heidelbergensis became Neanderthals which were just a dwarf version of the giant, with giant barrel-shaped chests they were generally built like dwarves, but were about the same height as modern man, who had also evolved from Heidelbergensis, but by staying in Africa they had become pygmy versions of Heidelbergensis by about 200,000 years ago, so Cro-Magnon aka Homo Sapiens sapiens are pygmy Heidelbergensis while the Neanderthals were dwarf Heidelbergensis.

A partial pole shift around 41,000 years ago called the Laschamp Excursion lowered global temperatures during the middle of an already cold glacial period, and due to rotating the magnetic field of the Earth and lessening the Van Allen Belts, allowed massive amounts of UV light in, especially in Europe. High doses of UVA and UVB cause sunburn, and no UVC currently makes it through the atmosphere down to Earth, but if it did during the Laschamp Excursion then any sunlight striking skin would break cellular DNA and cause skin cancer. And so for 300 to 400 years in Europe everyone had to move into caves, and everyone had to cover themselves in red ocher as a sunblock, which is still practiced to this day in parts of Northern Sub-Saharan Africa, where ocher (also spelled ochre) or red clay with more than 12% iron oxide is manufactured by the Himba of northern Namibia.

Thee Himba mine and grind hematite, mix ground hematite with ground clay, then mix that with butterfat and coat their skin and hair with it. To this day the women and children still use what they call otjize. Their ocher kits consist of a shell, a piece of hematite, a grinding stone, and sometimes resin from a relative of frankincense and myrrh called omuzumba, these kits are nearly identical to kits found in caves in South Africa dated as far back as 100,000 years ago based on surrounding debris, not the kits themselves, so I would suggest that they too date to a time around 41,000 years ago like the caves in southern Europe, and that this was a global problem.

In general 41,000 years ago is when Cro Magnon or Modern Man and Neanderthals overlapped in southern Europe, and it is also around the time that the Neanderthals appear to have gone extinct, after having lived for nearly a half million years in Europe. It was also at this time that Caucasians having light colored skin apparently evolved, and all within the span of only 15 to 20 generations due to living in caves, absurd levels of UV light in sunlight, and having to cover every inch of their skin that was exposed to the Sun with red ocher. Those that developed the pale skin were able to process a small amount of vitamin D though the ocher, and vitamin D is key to defending against yearly infectious diseases like the flu. Either way, for 400 years both Modern Man and Neanderthals lived in the caves in southern France where you can find the image made by a Neanderthal placing their hand on the wall and then spitting red ocher on their hand. Red ocher was not just used for decorations and for cave paintings, both Cro-Magnon and the Neanderthals needed to cover themselves in red ocher just to survive for 300 to 400 years. Actually the entire event may have lasted for up to 2,000 years with the peak being 300 to 400, and during up to 2,000 years or 100 generations everyone had to know the ocher secret, that only ground hematite can protect you from the Sun during the Laschamp Excursion, and that you have to mix it with clay and something like butterfat or tallow.

It was also at this time that the first evidence of any humans stitching or sewing clothing can be found, because apparently they needed to create form-fitting full body clothing, likely of leather or suede, and stitching allowed them to cover the whole body leaving only the hands and face exposed, which they then covered with some kind of red ocher mixture. The Neanderthals showed no signs of adapting and learning to stitch clothing during this time, continuing to cover themselves in loose-fitting furs, and it may be because they physically couldn't hold a needle. Not only did Neanderthals have extremely fat fingers, but their thumb had evolved to hold things like spears and to lay flat alongside their fingers, while Cro-Magnon or modern man had slender fingers with a thumb that had evolved to touch the finger tips, exactly what is needed to stitch and to sew.

Considering Neanderthal adult males required 8,000 to 9,000 calories a day and ate almost exclusively meat, the 300 to 400 year period during which daylight became deathly must have affected local fauna, perhaps impacting their ability just to eat enough calories to survive, whereas Cro-Magnon could survive on 2,000 to 3,000 calories a day, and learned to make full body suede outfits and to use ocher as a near total sunblock on their exposed skin to hunt during the day. Without the form fitting clothing the Neanderthals slowly died of skin cancer and starvation, with evidence in the Labyrinth of Neanderthal cannibalism, with that being their most likely final demise. 

Around 110,000 to 120,000 years ago during the last interglacial warming period called the Eemian Neanderthals domesticated a Siberian wolf that no longer exists in nature because they turned all of them into large dogs. Over the span of the next 80,000 years the Neanderthals and their dogs reigned supreme in Europe, hunting and eating all of the large fauna and megafauna of Europe until the Laschamp Excursion forced everyone into caves. At the end of the 300 to 400 core years only the dogs walked out of the caves, while the Neanderthals appear to have cannabilistically eaten themselves into extinction.

In addition, before the Laschamp Excursion two subspecies of Homo Erectus Pekinensis existed, as well as Hobbits or Homo Floresiensis, the Denisovans, and another Hobbit-like dwarf species on another island east of Indonesia. And almost all data says that every one of these species of humans all went extinct around 40,000 years ago and the last evidence comes from caves, so it is entirely possible that the Laschamp Excursion wiped out not only the Neanderthals, but also two kinds of Homo Erectus that had lived in China for over a million years, the Hobbits of the island of Flores, and likely the Denisovans as well, taking the total human family down  from at least 5 different human species to just one, the Homo Sapiens sapiens that had figured out ocher and stitching were the only ones to emerge from all of the caves on the planet, and their cannibalistic neighbors the Neanderthals became just a thing of legend.

The stories of the Labyrinth of ancient Greece has the giant Cyclops that ate people inside the cave, and that is based on finding the large and thick bones of Neanderthals and the skulls of pygmy elephants they ate in the Labyrinth. Modern researchers found the largest Neanderthal bones ever discovered in the Labyrinth, alongside baby Neanderthal bones, and all of them were butchered including having their tongues scraped out of their skulls, indicating cannibalism by other Neanderthals. The reference to the Cyclops is just that the pygmy elephant skull nose hole was mistaken for the eye hole of a giant, and so they called it the Cyclops.

If the Laschamp Excursion had not wiped out the Neanderthals we would have never been able to safely live in Europe, because the Neanderthals ate only meat like their wolf dogs and needed up to 9,000 calories a day for adult males, so if they ate each other I'm sure they would have eaten any modern humans they came across as well, and so they would have made for very bad neighbors.

After the Earth was cleared of all competitor humans around 41,000 years ago, another event happened around 12,800 years ago. The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis or YDIH was confirmed by the discovery of the Hiawatha Impact Crater in Greenland, which dates to around 12,800 years ago, and appears to have wiped out all 54 species of megafauna in less than 10 years, first by a tidal wave, then a firestorm, and then all of the megafauna was wiped out by a dust winter that blocked up to half the light for up to 10 years, when mammoths needed 400 pounds of grass a day to survive, and the predators needed the herbivores to survive. So both of those events 41,000 years ago and 12,800 years ago were staggeringly destructive events, one wiped out four out of the five human species on the planet, and the next wiped out 54 megafauna species in North America, Europe and Asia, clearing North America of short-faced bears, saber tooth tigers, American lions, and dire wolves. No predator bones like these show any signs of human predation, so if you want to talk about God, maybe there's actually Manifest Destiny.

Either God doesn't exist or God does exist. If God doesn't exist, then these 2 events are natural disasters that reshaped the face of the Earth by random chance wiping out 80% of humans and 80% of megafauna like it was nothing. If God does exist, maybe he cleared out the Neanderthals and other human species because it wasn't safe for Homo Sapiens sapiens, and if God hadn't cleared out the megafauna it also wouldn't have been safe. Through two disastrous events that happened relatively not that long ago the Earth was made clear for puny Homo Sapien sapiens to take over the planet. So either Manifest Destiny is real, and God has been incredibly destructive in the last 41,000 years specifically for us, or the Universe is an incredibly dangerous place and all life could end at any time.

The Kepler satellite telescope examined over 60,000 Class G stars, and identified 2,000 with their orbital planes edge-on towards us so that the planets could be counted as they passed in front of the star. This showed us that we are unique in the Universe because they couldn't find any other planets in the Goldilocks Zone around any Class G stars where water is a liquid like on Earth. First there was the Drake Equation which assumed before Kepler that we were going to find many planets in the Goldilocks Zone of many Class G stars, and that planets that can support life like the Earth were common throughout the Universe. Kepler revealed that 80% of all Class G star systems had only 1 planet, a gas giant the size of Jupiter orbiting closer than Mercury orbits our Sun, all remaining systems were characterized by small rocky planets also inside the orbit of our Mercury and zero planets in the Goldilocks Zone.

Life is precious and appears to have only ever formed in our solar system due to having a uniquely large amount of mass for a Class G star, we had so much mass that computer models show that Jupiter and Saturn were both pulled into the inner solar system and due to each other were able to pull away from the Sun and head back out to the outer solar system dragging debris that formed the 4 rocky planets in our solar system, unlike every other Class G system that had so much less matter they only ever have at most either small rocky planets closer than our Mercury, or 1 gas giant like Jupiter which gets pulled into the inner system, eliminates all small rocky planets, and stays close to the star, again, inside of the orbit of our Mercury, so to be clear, based on 2,000 Class G stars, there are no other planets in the Goldilocks Zone of any Class G star anywhere in the Universe.

And now we find out that mass extinctions like the Laschamp Excursion wiping out 80% of all hominid species on the planet around 41,000 years ago, and the Hiawatha Impact Event in Greenland around 12,800 years ago wiping out 80% of all megafauna on the planet are common occurrences. The Hiawatha Impact Event created black mats exactly like the black mats with nanodiamonds that can be found in the K-T boundary rock layers that mark the end of the dinosaurs, so the megafauna of the northern hemisphere were wiped out by a smaller version of the exact same kind of asteroid event that wiped out the dinosaurs millions of years earlier, and apparently this kind of thing happens all the time. In the last 41,000 years we lost 4 out of 5 human species and then 54 megafauna species just in the northern hemisphere, and if either of these events happened now there would be absolutely nothing we could do about it.