Human culture, not smarts, may have overwhelmed Neanderthals
Sunday, February 7, 2016 - 11:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
What happened to the Neanderthals? They left their African homes and migrated into Europe 350,000 to 600,000 years ago, well ahead of modern humans, who showed up only about 45,000 years ago. But within about 5,000 years of our arrival, the indigenous Neanderthals had disappeared. Anthropologists have proposed that the Neanderthals may have been done […]