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Neanderthals and humans “were at war for 100,000 years” – Yahoo News Australia
Neanderthals may have been locked in a series of skirmishes with homo sapiens for 100,000 years, researchers claim
Were Neanderthals and humans at war for millennia? (Getty)
Scientists have long puzzled over why Neanderthals (closely related to Homo sapiens) went extinct around 40,000 years ago.
But a researcher has suggested that the two species may have been locked in a series of skirmishes for 100,000 years.
Neanderthals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, around the same time modern humans started migrating to the Near East and Europe.
In fact, the battle between the two closely related hominins might…
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