Bad luck may have caused Neanderthals’ extinction – study0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 29, 2019
Homo sapien invasion may not have prompted Neanderthals’ demise 40,000 years ago
Homo sapien invasion may not have prompted Neanderthals’ demise 40,000 years ago
Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe’s cold steppes. The related Denisovans inhabited Asia, while the more primitive Homo erectus lived in Indonesia, and Homo rhodesiensis in central Africa.
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