A new study published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology suggests that the transfer of infectious pathogens between populations of Neanderthals and anatomically modern Homo sapiens may have played a role in the extinction of Neanderthals. Neanderthals. Image credit: University of Utah via kued.org. Recent hypotheses for the cause of Neanderthal extinction range from climate change to an early human alliance with wolves resulting in domination...
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