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Did humans kill Neanderthals?

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A new study suggests that Neanderthals may have gone extinct from tropical diseases carried by humans migrating out of Africa. ... read more

Squat, rugged, and well suited to cold, Neanderthals dominated Eurasia for the better part of 200,000 years, surviving an ice age, but the species mysteriously disappeared around the same time modern humans spread out from Africa into their habitat. read more

The Neanderthal genome project published papers in 2010 and 2014 stating that Neanderthals contributed to the DNA of modern humans, including most humans outside sub-Saharan Africa, as well as a few populations in sub-Saharan Africa, through interbreeding, likely between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago. read more

Many modern humans have neanderthal DNA. This means that during the 10,000 years that neanderthal and modern humans cohabited Eurasia many interbred. Neanderthal DNA makes modern humans better able to deal with cold and are immune to certain diseases. 10,000 years is roughly the same amount of time as is today from the invention of agriculture. read more

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