#neanderthal extinction

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The Hidden Secret of Human Survival: Why Social Networks Saved Homo Sapiens

Imagine the wild and unpredictable landscape of Europe forty thousand years ago. The air is sharply cold and the horizon is dominated by vast sheets of ice and sweeping tundras. Great beasts like mammoths and woolly rhinos roam the plains while two distinct human species attempt to carve out a living in this unforgiving world. On one side are the Neanderthals, powerful and highly adapted to the…

The Hidden Secret of Human Survival: Why Social Networks Saved Homo Sapiens

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Supercomputer reveals the cause of Neanderthal Extinction!! Neanderthal extinction was neither caused by Climate Change, nor the confrontation with our ancestors, the Homo sapiens. A new study explains what happened to the Neanderthals? Why they suddenly disappeared.

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Maybe we wiped Neanderthals out after all

Maybe we wiped Neanderthals out after all

Or at least, that’s the conclusion of a paper which models the population changes and other factors involved.

New model to study hominin interactions in time-varying climate environment.

Neanderthals experienced rapid population decline due to competitive exclusion.

Interbreeding only minor contributor to Neanderthal extinction.

Abrupt Climate Change not major cause for demise of Neanderthals.

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Art made Homo sapiens smarter than Neanderthals—and better equipped to survive — Quartz When considering what humans need to survive, art doesn’t seem high on the list. A hungry person will pick a sandwich over a painting, say.

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Neanderthal art found in cave

Neanderthal art found in cave

The etchings are over 39,000 years old and are believed to be the oldest cave art in Europe. The experts maintained that there is no denying the fact that the artwork is done by a Neanderthal.

The engravings are uncovered in Gorham’s Cave, a site overlooking the Mediterranean Sea by a team led by zoologist Clive Finlayson, the director of the Gibraltar Museum. The team has been excavating the…

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