Modern humans exhibited higher growth rates and migrated more quickly than did Neanderthals, thus permitting them to populate and repopulate areas more efficiently. It is impossible to ascertain the ...

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Genome analysis reveals that Neanderthals lived on the brink of extinction for 350,000 years in small populations.

Did modern humans erase Neanderthals, or did our close cousins fade away for reasons that had little to do with us? A pair of major papers in Science and Nature on Dec. 12, 2024, sharpen that question ...

During their final years, the dwindling Neanderthal population in Europe was drained of its genetic diversity; the last members of this dying species came from just a single lineage, which would end ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. It’s early January and south-west Britain is painfully ...