Humans Did Not Wipe Out the Neanderthals, New Research Suggests

Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 12:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Neanderthals went extinct in Europe about 40,000 years ago, giving them millennia to coexist with modern humans culturally and sexually, according to new research that also suggests modern humans didn't cause Neanderthals to die out rapidly.

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