Inbreeding, Small Populations, and Demographic Fluctuations Alone Could Have Led to Neanderthal Extinction
Saturday, November 30, 2019 - 12:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Small populations, inbreeding, and random demographic fluctuations could have been enough to cause Neanderthal extinction, according to a study published November 27, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Krist Vaesen from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, and colleagues.