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    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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    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 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Spleen United "Neanderthal Man", a 1970 song by English band Hotlegs. Neanderthal genetics Neanderthal extinction Neanderthal anatomy Neanderthal Museum, in...
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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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    of archaic humans. Multiple hypotheses for the extinction of archaic human species such as Neanderthals include competition, violence, interbreeding with...
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    ecosystems. De-extinction also presents serious ethical challenges, particularly if applied to species high cognitive abilities such as Neanderthals. If such...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • the history, culture, and extinction of Neanderthals, the closest known relatives of anatomically modern humans. Neanderthals are widely stereotyped as...
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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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    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 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The Clan of the Cave Bear (category Fiction about Neanderthals)
    series, which speculates on the possibilities of interactions between Neanderthal and modern Cro-Magnon humans. The novel references the advance of the...
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    (2013). "Kuru: A Journey Back in Time from Papua New Guinea to the Neanderthals' Extinction". Pathogens. 2 (3): 472–505. doi:10.3390/pathogens2030472. PMC 4235695...
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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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  • S2CID 84164968. Retrieved 2019-12-24. Gilligan, Ian (2007a). "Neanderthal Extinction and Modern Human Behaviour: The Role of Climate Change and Clothing"...
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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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