Mysterious Migration Routes of Neanderthals Between Eastern Europe and Eurasia Revealed

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In 1856, workers working in a career in the Neander Valley near Düsseldorf (Germany) exhumed what they believe to be the parts of a fossilized bear skeleton, their discovery will change the course of history. It is the skeleton of a species of hominids that appeared - 300,000 years ago and disappeared from Eurasia - 40,000 years ago. The geologist William King gave it the name Homo neanderthalensis in 1864. The distribution of the (...)

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Neanderthals suffered a catastrophic population collapse before their disappearance.

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A recent anthropological analysis explains how Neanderthals spread from Eastern Europe to the vast regions of Central and Eastern Eurasia between 120,000 and 60,000 years ago. The scarcity of archaeological sites connecting both areas had kept the details of this migration in the shadows but now, by computer simulations, a [...]