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"Both humans and Neanderthals go extinct in Europe at this time," he said. "If we as a successful species died out in the region then it is not a big surprise that Neanderthals, who had an even ...
Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Hypotheses on the causes of the extinction include violence, transmission of diseases from modern humans which Neanderthals had no immunity to, competitive replacement, extinction by interbreeding with early modern human populations, natural catastrophes, climate change and inbreeding ...
This week, uncover why Neanderthals may have disappeared, see an eel escape a predator’s stomach, explore an ancient cataclysmic climate event, and more. Puzzling fossil discovery could reveal ...
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Evidence-based isotope studies show that Neanderthals ate primarily meat. [43] [44] [45] Neanderthals were probably apex predators, [46] and fed predominantly on deer, namely red deer and reindeer, as they were the most abundant game, [47] but also on ibex, wild boar, aurochs, and less frequently mammoth, straight-tusked elephant and woolly ...
As a result of this, Neanderthals were more prone to ear infections which can even cause hearing loss. Today, Neanderthal ear infections are typically seen in their anatomy by bone growths on their skulls that were caused by the ear infection commonly known as “swimmer’s ear.” A study from Trinkaus, Samsel, and Villotte's research article ...
Modern human DNA found in Neanderthal genomes offers clues to how our archaic ancestors disappeared, according to a new study.
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