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Controversy Involving the Neanderthal Theory

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light of these discoveries. The Neanderthal Controversy stems from the question of whether modern man drove out the Neanderthals, essentially "killing" off this race, or did the Neanderthals and  the Homo Erectus breed and this lead to the creation of early Homo Sapien. Specific discoveries have also brought this question to light, including the discovery of Neanderthal bones  in a cave the Caucasus Mountains that had similar DNA to bones found in the Feldhofer Cave in the Neander Valley, both of which are not the DNA of what  is now considered modern man (Homo sapien). The Theories In considering some of the central elements related to this argument, it is necessary first to assess the correlation between  the Neanderthal and the modern Homo sapien, and the impacts for defining the evolutionary process. Homo sapiens are believed to have evolved from Homo erectus over 100,000 years ago  with significant innovations over their predecessors, including increased body size, a larger brain, and a higher, rounder forehead (Homo sapiens, 2000). Because of the larger brain, Homo sapiens achieved  the ability to specialize tools, cook, and adapt gestural language (Homo sapiens, 2000). The evolutionary process, though itself controversial, has been assessed in correlation with determining the initial change  and spread of Homo sapien across the world. Questions have been raised about how populations of Homo erectus could have seemingly simultaneously transformed into populations of Homo sapien, and  this has led to the development of a number of significant paleoanthropological theories. There is little argument in the scientific community about the fact that the oldest modern  humans (Homo sapien) were located in Africa approximately 130,000 years ago. Paleoanthropologists have noted clearly evolved populations of Homo erectus in regions of Africa and have also noted that