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    Neanderthal extinction Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Hypotheses on the causes of the extinction include violence, transmission of...
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    uncertain. Neanderthals are known from numerous fossils, especially from after 130,000 years ago. The reasons for Neanderthal extinction are disputed...
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    included Neanderthals and Denisovans, as well as several unidentified hominins. In Europe, Asia and North Africa, interbreeding between Neanderthals and Denisovans...
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  • The Neanderthal genome project is an effort of a group of scientists to sequence the Neanderthal genome, founded in July 2006. It was initiated by 454...
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    Neanderthal anatomy differed from modern humans in that they had a more robust build and distinctive morphological features, especially on the cranium...
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  • Genetic studies on Neanderthal ancient DNA became possible in the late 1990s. The Neanderthal genome project, established in 2006, presented the first...
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    The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw the extinction of the majority of the world's megafauna (typically defined as animal species...
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  • United Neanderthal genetics Neanderthal extinction Neanderthal anatomy Neanderthal Museum, in Mettmann, Germany Neanderthal genome project Neanderthals in...
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  • Dance of the Tiger (category Fiction about Neanderthals)
    which produced sterile offspring. He emphasizes the possibility of Neanderthal extinction through inter-breeding rather than through violence. He also presents...
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    Irish elk (category Holocene extinctions)
    paleo-anthropologist, and in this novel, he presents a theory of Neanderthal extinction. Irish elk feature prominently, under the name shelk which Kurten...
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  • mechanism of extinction. Europe was home to the Neanderthals for at least 100,000 years. Then, about 30,000 years ago, the Neanderthals vanished. Fossil...
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  • The Clan of the Cave Bear (category Fiction about Neanderthals)
    series, which speculates on the possibilities of interactions between Neanderthal and modern Cro-Magnon humans. The novel references the advance of the...
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    Human extinction or omnicide is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid...
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    Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal extinction Recent African origin of modern humans Toba catastrophe theory Footnotes...
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    Southwest Asian Neanderthals were Neanderthals who lived in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, and Iran - the southernmost expanse of the...
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    The details about Neanderthal behaviour remain highly controversial. From their physiology, Neanderthals are presumed to have been omnivores, but animal...
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    or absorbed by the expanding H. sapiens populations by 40 kya (Neanderthal extinction). The species status of H. rudolfensis, H. ergaster, H. georgicus...
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    Australasians. Around 20,000 years ago, approximately 5,000 years after the Neanderthal extinction, the Last Glacial Maximum forced northern hemisphere inhabitants...
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  • The Inheritors (Golding novel) (category Fiction about Neanderthals)
    Lord of the Flies (1954). It concerns the extinction of one of the last remaining tribes of Neanderthals at the hands of the more sophisticated Homo...
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  • the History of Art. He is best known for his work in dating the Neanderthal extinction and the arrival of modern humans in Europe. He is Professor in the...
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    the Gibraltar Neanderthals' food supply and may have stressed their population beyond recovery, leading to their aggregated extinction in areas of Europe...
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    of archaic humans. Multiple hypotheses for the extinction of archaic human species such as Neanderthals include competition, violence, interbreeding with...
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    saved humanity from biological exclusion: an economic theory of Neanderthal extinction". Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 58 (1): 1–29. doi:10...
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    Mousterian (category Neanderthals)
    000-50,000. Israel Museum Neanderthal extinction hypotheses Levallois technique Callaway, Ewen (20 August 2014). "Neanderthals: Bone technique redrafts...
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  • Neanderthals have been depicted in popular culture since the early 20th century. Early depictions conveyed and perpetuated notions of proverbially crude...
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  • "kuru-like epidemics" which appeared around the time of the extinction of the Neanderthals who co-existed with humans. This allows the suggestion that...
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    replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans in archaeology) began below the CI tephra. In 2021, the timing of Neanderthal extinction has also been re-calibrated...
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    human admixture with modern humans List of human evolution fossils Neanderthal extinction Peopling of Europe French abri means "rock shelter", crô means "hole"...
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  • This is a list of archeological sites where remains or tools of Neanderthals were found. Schmerling Caves, Engis Naulette Scladina Spy-sur-l'Orneau Veldwezelt-Hezerwater...
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  • cause of Neanderthal extinction". phys.org. Retrieved 14 June 2020. Timmermann, Axel (15 June 2020). "Quantifying the potential causes of Neanderthal extinction:...
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