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  2. 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 ...

  3. Neanderthal - Wikipedia

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    The Neanderthals were the first human species to permanently occupy Europe as the continent was only sporadically occupied by earlier humans. [159] The southernmost find was recorded at Shuqba Cave, Levant; [160] reports of Neanderthals from the North African Jebel Irhoud [161] and Haua Fteah [162] have been reidentified as H. sapiens.

  4. Neanderthals died out 42,000 years ago as Earth’s magnetic ...

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    A new study is shedding light on how and why Neanderthals died out. ... around 40,000 B.C. is a likely reason the Neanderthals disappeared. ... of the ice sheet over North America while drying out ...

  5. Puzzling fossil discovery could reveal why Neanderthals ...

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    Five teeth uncovered in a rock shelter in France’s Rhône Valley in 2015 could explain why Neanderthals disappeared from the face of Earth 40,000 years ago.. The once-in-a-lifetime find ...

  6. How did Neanderthals disappear? New DNA analysis sheds ... - AOL

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    Modern human DNA found in Neanderthal genomes offers clues to how our archaic ancestors disappeared, according to a new study.

  7. Early human migrations - Wikipedia

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    The so-called "recent dispersal" of ... Neanderthals disappeared about 40,000 years ago. ... Conventional estimates have it that humans reached North America at some ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Cave discovery in France may explain why Neanderthals ... - AOL

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    The fossilized remains of a Neanderthal discovered in a cave in southern France shed fresh light on why the ancient humans may have disappeared 40,000 years ago. ... we called Thorin was 105,000 ...