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Did Neanderthals go to war with our ancestors?
Exactly why the Neanderthals died out 40,000 years ago is still greatly debated, but evolutionary biologist Nicholas Longrich looks at the...
Around 600,000 years ago, humanity split in two. One group stayed in Africa, evolving into us. The other struck out overland, into Asia and then Europe, becoming…
- Nicholas R Longrich / The Conversation
- BBC
They weren’t our ancestors (with the exception of a little interbreeding), but a sister species, evolving in parallel.
Neanderthals fascinate us because of what they tell us about ourselves – who we were, and who we might have become.
It’s tempting to…