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Neanderthals disappeared from Europe thousands of years earlier than we thought – News-Daily.com
Neanderthal remains believed to belong to some of the last survivors of the species in Europe are thousands of years older than once thought, according to a new…
Neanderthal remains believed to belong to some of the last survivors of the species in Europe are thousands of years older than once thought, according to a new study.
Exactly when Neanderthals, our closest ancestors, disappeared in Europe is hotly debated. They are thought to have gone extinct around 40,000 years ago — not long after modern humans migrated out of Africa.
But previous studies of remains found in Belgium’s Spy Cave had placed specimens as recent as around 37,000 years ago — which…
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