Modern humans probably exterminated the world's other archaic humans, the Neanderthals in Europe. |
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For too long we have regarded the extinction of Neanderthals as a chance historical accident. |
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They say that the site was probably a series of ponds used as a watering place by both Neanderthals and animals. |
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But what if it didn't happen that way and the Neanderthals were the ones left around? |
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The datings provided by both laboratories have enabled them to confirm that the Neanderthals from the Asturian cave lived some 49,000 years ago. |
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The demise of Neanderthals may, instead, have resembled that of mammoths in North America. |
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It was these anatomically modern humans which joined or supplanted the Neanderthals in Europe some 40,000 years ago. |
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He claimed it was found in a peat bog and was a vital missing link between modern humans and Neanderthals. |
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In my view, modern humans evolved in situ from Neanderthals in Europe, as they did from robust forms elsewhere. |
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This enabled them to track the movements of both Neanderthals and early humans. |
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It's pretty clear that it happened in Europe, which was occupied by both humans and Neanderthals for several thousand years. |
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Except in the postcontact period, the Neanderthals had exhibited only equivocal signs of symbolic behaviors. |
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In Eastern Europe, the latest Neanderthals show no modern human features and the earliest modern humans show no Neanderthal features. |
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Was there any interbreeding with Neanderthals as modern humans moved into Europe? |
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Over 120 pieces of flint waste show that Neanderthals had made butchery tools on site to carve up the mammoths. |
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In fact, anatomically modern humans existed at least 160,000 years ago, and Neanderthals became extinct only 30,000 years ago. |
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Associated with the Neanderthals is the Mousterian tool kit, comprising smaller and more refined implements than the Acheulian. |
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Eventually we dominated and may have caused the extinction of another earlier human species, the Neanderthals. |
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In Europe, indigenous Neanderthals were replaced by the ancestors of modern humans only about 30,000 to 40,000 years ago. |
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Proponents of the multiregional theory consider Neanderthals as an earlier primitive stage in the development of modern Europeans. |
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But modern humans and Neanderthals are now known to have co-existed in Europe 30,000 years ago. |
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Though superior on the rational level, the Homosapiens with their violence, lust, cruelty and superstition, are rendered far inferior to the Neanderthals who are reluctant to kill even for food. |
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Mousterian culture is associated with Neanderthals in Europe. |
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Well, that's when the Neanderthals were around in Europe and I'm not sure whether the Aborigines would have got to Australia by then but it was a long time back. |
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I like the term knuckle dragger, but I don't want to cast any undeserved slurs at Neanderthals. |
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Liberals loved it because it made men with guns look like Neanderthals, and conservatives leaped at the chance to tut-tut predictably about the social decay of America. |
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Inverting Wells' picture of the Homosapiens as superior beings and the Neanderthals as cannibals, Golding views man's progress in the evolutionary scale as a fall. |
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Within 40,000 years Neanderthals had become extinct throughout Europe. |
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It was hoped the comparison would expand understanding of Neanderthals, as well as the evolution of humans and human brains. |
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No evidence for gene flow in the direction from modern humans to Neanderthals was found. |
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These interbreeding events could have been directly between Neanderthals and East Asians, maybe in some other indirect way. |
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Studies published in March 2016 suggest that modern humans bred with hominins, including Neanderthals, on multiple occasions. |
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The exact nature of biological and cultural interaction between Neanderthals and other human groups is contested. |
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Neanderthals died out in Europe between 41,000 and 39,000 years ago, apparently coinciding with the start of a very cold period. |
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Neanderthals inhabited that continent long before the arrival of modern humans. |
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However, some researchers have argued that there is evidence of possible interbreeding between female Neanderthals and male modern humans. |
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Neanderthals have been portrayed in popular culture including appearances in literature, visual media and comedy. |
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Early 20th century artistic interpretations often presented Neanderthals as beastly creatures, emphasizing hairiness and rough, dark complexion. |
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The study also found with the same probability that modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped in Europe for between 2,600 and 5,400 years. |
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In 2006, two anthropologists of the University of Arizona proposed an efficiency explanation for the demise of the Neanderthals. |
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Both male and female Neanderthals participated in the single occupation of hunting big game, such as bison, deer, gazelles and wild horses. |
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Analysis of one skeleton's shoulder showed these humans, like Neanderthals, did not have the full capability for throwing spears. |
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If so, this would indicate that Neanderthals may have been very sensitive to climate change. |
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In the Levant, for example, assemblages produced by Neanderthals are indistinguishable from those made by Qafzeh type modern humans. |
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The Mousterian Industry was developed and used primarily by the Neanderthals, a native European and Middle Eastern hominin species. |
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The last Neanderthals seem to have been forced to retreat during this process to the southern half of the Iberian Peninsula. |
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In the Paleolithic period, the Neanderthals entered Iberia and eventually took refuge from the advancing migrations of modern humans. |
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Fur has long served as a source of clothing for humans, including Neanderthals. |
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Here's something else for those of you who think of Neanderthals as submoronic cartoon characters. |
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In their article, the authors note that Neanderthals had the genetic capability for language and engaged in conspecific care. |
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It also seems that the higher body mass of Neanderthals had a correspondingly larger brain mass required for body care and control. |
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There is no evidence for Neanderthals in Africa, Australia or the Americas. |
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Neanderthals nursed their elderly and practised ritual burial indicating an organised society. |
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The new technology generated a population explosion of modern humans which is believed to have led to the extinction of the Neanderthals. |
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In the Middle Paleolithic, Neanderthals were present in the region now occupied by Poland. |
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Both Neanderthals and modern humans took care of the elderly members of their societies during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic. |
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Fossil evidence suggests Neanderthals evolved in Europe, separate from modern humans in Africa for more than 400,000 years. |
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Neanderthals left hundreds of lithic assemblages in Europe and in Western Asia. |
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Some Neanderthals continue to resist the education reform bill. |
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The new technology generated a population explosion of modern humans which is believed to have contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals. |
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It was as if the Neanderthals made stone tools, and were not much concerned about their final forms. |
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The Neanderthals continued to use Mousterian stone tool technology and possibly Chatelperronian technology. |
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Around 200,000 BP, during the Lower Paleolithic period, Neanderthals first entered the Iberian Peninsula. |
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Because of the cave art's age, some scientists have conjectured that the paintings may have been made by Neanderthals. |
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The gorge has been visited by Neanderthals, and people from the Gravettian and Magdalenian periods. |
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The forehead was fairly straight rather than sloping like in Neanderthals, and with only slight browridges. |
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According to one study, about 1 to 4 percent of the DNA in Europeans and Asians may be derived from Neanderthals. |
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This population was scarce and very similar to the other Neanderthals found in the whole of Western Europe. |
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The cranium lacks a pronounced occipital bun in the neck, a bulge that anchored considerable neck muscles in Neanderthals. |
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In ancient people, particularly Neanderthals, the distal bones were shorter, usually thought to be an adaptation to cold climate. |
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Studies published in March 2016 suggest that modern humans bred with hominins, including Denisovans and Neanderthals, on multiple occasions. |
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However, the brain case is quite rounded and distinct from that of the Neanderthals and is similar to the brain case of modern humans. |
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Evidence of the presence of Neanderthals has been discovered on the Gower Peninsula. |
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Evidence of the first human habitation of the area by Neanderthals dates back to 125,000 years ago. |
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Conventionally, therefore, European hominins younger than 243,000 years old are called Neanderthals. |
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A 2007 genetic study suggested some Neanderthals may have had red hair and blond hair, along with a light skin tone. |
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It had actually long been debated whether Neanderthals were hunters or scavengers. |
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The extraction of mtDNA from a second specimen was reported in 2000, and showed no sign of modern human descent from Neanderthals. |
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The finding also suggests that redheadedness would have evolved separately in Neanderthals and humans, at different times and through different genetic variations. |
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The first settlers of Australia, New Guinea, and the large islands just to the east arrived between 50,000 and 30,000 years ago, when Neanderthals still roamed. |
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Neanderthals went through a demographic crisis in Western Europe that seems to coincide with climate change that resulted in a period of extreme cold in Western Europe. |
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For a complete list see List of Southwest Asian Neanderthals. |
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Remains of more than 70 Southwest Asian Neanderthals have been found. |
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Remains of more than 300 European Neanderthals have been found. |
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Hawks has argued that the genetic similarity to Neanderthals may indeed be the result of both structure and interbreeding, as opposed to just one or the other. |
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This would be counter to strict versions of the Recent African Origin, since it would imply that at least part of the genome of Europeans would descend from Neanderthals. |
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These modern humans may have introduced a disease that contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals, and that may be added to other recent explanations for their extinction. |
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According to a 2014 study by Thomas Higham and colleagues of organic samples from European sites, Neanderthals died out in Europe between 41,000 and 39,000 years ago. |
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One of the major findings focused on the limb morphology of Neanderthals. |
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The genetic variant of the MC1R gene linked to red hair in Neanderthals has not been found in modern humans, hence red hair may be an example of convergent evolution. |
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On November 16, 2006, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued a press release suggesting Neanderthals and ancient humans probably did not interbreed. |
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There likely never were more than 70,000 Neanderthals at any given time. |
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To date, the bones of over 400 Neanderthals have been found. |
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From brain Endocasts, Neanderthals also had significantly larger brains. |
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These tools disappeared from the archeological record at around the same time the Neanderthals themselves disappeared from the fossil record, about 40,000 years ago. |
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The unbroken succession of fossil sites of both groups in Europe was considered evidence of a slow, gradual evolutionary transition from Neanderthals to modern humans. |
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Recent research indicates that the Neanderthals timed their hunts and the migrations of game animals long before the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic. |
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In March 2016, studies were published that suggest that modern humans bred with hominins, including Denisovans and Neanderthals, on multiple occasions. |
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In the 2010s, genomic testing of living populations has located archaic admixture of modern humans outside of Africa with Neanderthals and Denisovans. |
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Alleles thought to have originated in Neanderthals and Denisovans have been identified at several genetic loci in the genomes of modern humans outside of Africa. |
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