Neanderthals

It’s possible that Neanderthals didn’t “die out”…they just blended in with us until they were invisible

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A digital recreation of a Neanderthal and a modern human standing side-by-side, representing the genetic blending of the two lineages.

Did the Neanderthals disappear from the earth, or are they still moving through our cells every day? A new statistical study suggests that our closest extinct cousins ​​didn’t just die. Instead, they may have gradually mixed with the growing wave of Homo sapiens, leaving behind only a few genes. For anyone who has ever taken … Read more

New DNA Revelation Rewrites The History Of The Neanderthals In Europe

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Ice Age Desert

An international team of researchers has found that Neanderthals were hit by a major population crisis that began about 75,000 years ago. Going back a while, almost all of the modern Neanderthals in Europe were like that descendants of one small group. This low genetic diversity may have contributed to their extinction, around 40,000 years … Read more