Neanderthal Diversity: Three Sub-Groups, Say Researchers
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 20:07
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Neanderthals, a distinct Middle Pleistocene population, inhabited a vast geographical area extending from Europe to western Asia and the Middle East from 30,000 to 100,000 years ago. Were they a homogenous group or separate sub-groups in which differences could be observed? Paleoanthropological studies since the 1950s, based on morphological skeletal evidence, have offered some support for the existence of three different sub-groups: one in Western Europe, one in southern Europe and another in the Levant. read more
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