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 […]

Read the whole article on Science Blog

More from Science Blog

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net