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Published 11/07/2009 by Yahoo! News


The Many Mysteries of Neanderthals (LiveScience.com)

Editor's Note: This is Part 6 in a 10-part LiveScience series on the origin, evolution and future of the human species and the mysteries that remain to be solved.

We are currently the only human species alive, but as recently as maybe 24,000 years ago...

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...modern humans. "They were a lot more closely related to us than anything alive today" said paleoanthropologist...
The Many Mysteries of Neanderthals (LiveScience.com) [Yahoo! News - 11/07/2009]
...replacing them. "A lot of scenarios have been imagined, from peaceful 'flower child' behavior to violent interactions to even cannibalism" Harvati said...
The Many Mysteries of Neanderthals (LiveScience.com) [Yahoo! News - 11/07/2009]
...Harvati said. "I think a lot of these scenarios happened. I think we probably tried interbreeding and maybe it worked, maybe it didn't. I'm sure there was violence at times. I think in some places they went extinct before modern humans even arrived. But you don't even need any of those if there is even a slight advantage in how many offspring modern humans produce successfully as opposed to Neanderthals." However, if Neanderthals...
The Many Mysteries of Neanderthals (LiveScience.com) [Yahoo! News - 11/07/2009]

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