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• fsloth 5y ago
  Nobody knows why neanderthals died. There was considerable amount of crossbreeding - modern europeans may carry genes inherited from neanderthals - so it's far from obvious what exactly happened.
  • d0mine 5y ago
    The same can be said about native Americans but we know better.
    • fsloth 5y ago
      What makes you think pre-agricultural stone-age Homo Sapiens with a sparse population would have been in any position to eradicate Neanderthals to extinction?
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• q1w2 5y ago
  I imagine all human migrations resulted in genocide - everywhere they happened. This isn't Europe specific. ...it's not even human specific as other animals do the same thing.
• Mikeb85 5y ago
  Considering modern Europeans all have Neanderthal genes, they could have simply just been bred out of existence.