Neanderthal extinction Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Hypotheses on the causes of the extinction include violence, transmission of...
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Pleistocene. Neanderthal extinction occurred roughly 40,000 years ago with the immigration of modern humans (Cro-Magnons), but Neanderthals in Gibraltar...
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Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans (redirect from Interbreeding of Cro-Magnon and Neanderthals)
mutations that led to the extinction of carriers, that the hybrid offspring of Neanderthal mothers were raised in Neanderthal groups and became extinct...
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The Neanderthal genome project is an effort, founded in July 2006, of a group of scientists to sequence the Neanderthal genome. It was initiated by 454...
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the Gibraltar Neanderthals' food supply and may have stressed their population beyond recovery, leading to their aggregated extinction in areas of Europe...
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Neanderthal anatomy is characterised by a long, flat skull and a stocky body plan. When first discovered, Neanderthals were thought to be anatomically...
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The Inheritors (Golding novel) (category Fiction about Neanderthals)
Lord of the Flies (1954). It concerns the extinction of one of the last remaining tribes of Neanderthals at the hands of the more sophisticated Homo...
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Neanderthal genetics testing became possible in the 1990s with advances in ancient DNA analysis. In 2008, the Neanderthal genome project published the...
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with Neanderthals for cave space, and there is a decline in cave bear populations starting 50,000 years ago onwards (although their extinction occurred...
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of archaic humans. Multiple hypotheses for the extinction of archaic human species such as Neanderthals include competition, violence, interbreeding with...
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the History of Art. He is best known for his work in dating the Neanderthal extinction and the arrival of modern humans in Europe. He is Professor in the...
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Spleen United "Neanderthal Man", a 1970 song by English band Hotlegs. Neanderthal genetics Neanderthal extinction Neanderthal anatomy Neanderthal Museum, in...
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Human extinction or omnicide is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid...
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Australasians. Around 20,000 years ago, approximately 5,000 years after the Neanderthal extinction, the Last Glacial Maximum forced northern hemisphere inhabitants...
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or absorbed by the expanding H. sapiens populations by 40 kya (Neanderthal extinction). The species status of H. rudolfensis, H. ergaster, H. georgicus...
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Irish elk (category Holocene extinctions)
paleo-anthropologist, and in this novel, he presents a theory of Neanderthal extinction. Irish elk feature prominently, under the name shelk which Kurten...
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Southwest Asian Neanderthals were Neanderthals who lived in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, and Iran - the southernmost expanse of the...
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the spatio-temporal pattern of human dispersals and extinctions across Eurasia, including Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern Homo sapiens. Douka completed...
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the history, culture, and extinction of Neanderthals, the closest known relatives of anatomically modern humans. Neanderthals are widely stereotyped as...
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mechanism of extinction. Europe was home to the Neanderthals for at least 100,000 years. Then, about 30,000 years ago, the Neanderthals vanished. Fossil...
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Dance of the Tiger (category Fiction about Neanderthals)
which produced sterile offspring. He emphasizes the possibility of Neanderthal extinction through inter-breeding rather than through violence. He also presents...
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replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans in archaeology) began below the CI tephra. In 2021, the timing of Neanderthal extinction has also been re-calibrated...
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modern humans (see figure). It is also proposed that one cause of Neanderthal extinction was a less efficient running. Joseph Jordania from the University...
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The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw the extinction of the majority of the world's megafauna, typically defined as animal species...
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human admixture with modern humans List of human evolution fossils Neanderthal extinction Peopling of Europe French abri means "rock shelter", crô means "hole"...
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close affinities with Neanderthals. The cave was also periodically inhabited by Neanderthals, but it is unclear whether Neanderthals and Denisovans ever...
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Africa. This view is at odds with the more supported views that Neanderthal extinction occurred due to events such as interbreeding, inbreeding, disease...
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"kuru-like epidemics" which appeared around the time of the extinction of the Neanderthals who co-existed with humans. This allows the suggestion that...
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The Neanderthal Museum is a museum in Mettmann, Germany. It was established in 1996. Located at the site of the first Neanderthal man discovery in the...
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Homo erectus (redirect from Extinction of Homo erectus)
including H. heidelbergensis — the last common ancestor of modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. As such a widely distributed species both geographically...
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