4 ms·
Thigh Bone Suggests Ancient and Modern Humans Overlapped
- yadongwen 11y agoSo it's possible that we killed them?
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoI think it's generally accepted that the Neanderthals went extinct because we out-competed them, at the very least. We're an astonishingly bloodthirsty batch of apes.
- Grazester 11y agoThey weren't too inferior for us to breed with them though.
- scarmig 11y ago"Next, the researchers would like to extract DNA from bones found in the cave. But because the thigh bone shows signs of having been burned, ancient human DNA may not have survived." Killed them deliciously, possibly.
- rhizome 11y agoWas there previously a theory that there was a gap in time after ancient humans, whereafter modern humans just popped up one epoch?