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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 depression.
The research also gives a new perspective on why Neanderthals died out so soon after modern humans arrived from Africa. No one knows why this happened, but the new evidence steers us away from ...
A new study is shedding light on how and why Neanderthals died out. The predecessor to humans today, Homo sapiens, vanished about 42,000 years ago. Prevailing theories posited that Neanderthals ...
Scientists are one step closer to solving the mystery of humanity's last great extinction: why the Neanderthals died off. The Neanderthals are our closest ancient human relatives. But around ...
Neanderthals lived in a high-stress environment with high trauma rates, and about 80% died before the age of 40. [25] The total population of Neanderthals remained low, and interbreeding with modern humans tended toward a loss of Neanderthal genes over time. [26] They lacked effective long-distance networks.
Neanderthals were extinct hominins who lived until about 40,000 years ago. They are the closest known relatives of anatomically modern humans. [1] Neanderthal skeletons were first discovered in the early 19th century; research on Neanderthals in the 19th and early 20th centuries argued for a perspective of them as "primitive" beings socially and cognitively inferior to modern humans.
The discoveries could bring scientists closer to understanding why Neanderthals ultimately died out and what role humans played in their demise. John Hawks, a University of Wisconsin-Madison ...
Modern human DNA found in Neanderthal genomes offers clues to how our archaic ancestors disappeared, according to a new study.