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  2. List of Neanderthal fossils - Wikipedia

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    Shanidar 2 and 4 are sometimes not treated as Neanderthals. All but Shanidar 3 and 10 (and fragments of 5 excavated in 2015-2016) [36] may have been destroyed in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. [40] Iran: Bawa Yawan: Lower left deciduous canine 1 ~43,600-~41,500 years ago [41] Heydari-Guran et al (2021) [41] Iran: Wezmeh: maxillary right premolar ...

  3. Neanderthal - Wikipedia

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    The bite force of Neanderthals and modern humans is now thought to be about the same, [204] about 285 N (64 lbf) and 255 N (57 lbf) in modern human males and females, respectively. [208] Reconstruction of an elderly Neanderthal man

  4. Neanderthal extinction - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. The study found that humans left Africa, encountered and interbred with Neanderthals in three waves: One about 200,000 to 250,000 years ago, not long after the very first Homo sapiens fossils ...

  6. The last time this comet passed, Neanderthals roamed Earth ...

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    The last time it was this close, Neanderthals still lived in central Europe and Asia, while modern humans were taking their first steps in Africa. Back then, they had no idea of the comet’s ...

  7. The Neanderthals Rediscovered - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Scientists discovered a unique line of Neanderthals and it's ...

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    Tens of thousands of years ago, a Neanderthal nicknamed Thorin lived in southeastern France, not long before his species went extinct. His remains were first discovered in 2015 and sparked a ...

  9. Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans - Wikipedia

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    Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize laureate and one of the researchers who published the first sequence of the Neanderthal genome.. On 7 May 2010, following the genome sequencing of three Vindija Neanderthals, a draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published and revealed that Neanderthals shared more alleles with Eurasian populations (e.g. French, Han Chinese, and Papua New Guinean) than with ...