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These early Eurasian populations probably mated with Neanderthals in the period between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago, probably during the initial phase of their expansion in the Middle East, and they carried ~2–9% Neanderthal ancestry in their genomes. [5]
Neanderthal skin and hair colour may have ranged from dark to light. Red hair seems to have been a rare trait. Neanderthals may have had a faster growth rate than modern humans. Neanderthals suffered extensively from traumatic injury and major physical trauma, possibly as a consequence of risky hunting strategies and animal attacks.
A 2019 reanalysis of 210,000-year-old skull fragments from the Greek Apidima Cave assumed to have belonged to a Neanderthal concluded that they belonged to a modern human, and a Neanderthal skull dating to 170,000 years ago from the cave indicates H. sapiens were replaced by Neanderthals until returning about 40,000 years ago. [202]
A Neanderthal was buried 75,000 years ago, and experts painstakingly pieced together what she looked like. The striking recreation is featured in a new Netflix documentary, “Secrets of the ...
Erik Trinkaus (born December 24, 1948) is an American paleoanthropologist specializing in Neandertal and early modern human biology and human evolution.Trinkaus researches the evolution of the species Homo sapiens and recent human diversity, focusing on the paleoanthropology and emergence of late archaic and early modern humans, and the subsequent evolution of anatomically modern humanity.
(Not a full skull) 2001 Netherlands: Luc Anthonis Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1: 60k 1600 [1] 1908 France: L. Bardon, A. Bouyssonie and J. Bouyssonie La Ferrassie 1: 70k–50k 1641 [1] 1909 France: Louis Capitan and Denis Peyrony Musée de l'Homme: Neanderthal 1: 40k 1452 [1] 1856 Germany: Kleine Feldhofer Grotte
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