The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived by Clive Finlayson

Author:Clive Finlayson [Finlayson, Clive]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Life Sciences, Sociology, Social Science, Paleontology, Science, Neanderthals, Evolution, General, Anthropology, Biology, Human Evolution, Social Evolution
ISBN: 9780199239184
Publisher: Oxford University Press US
Published: 2009-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

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One Small Step for Man . . .

THE kinds of rapid environmental changes that Neanderthals had been experiencing across Eurasia, on either side of the mid-latitude mountainous belt, since at least 50 thousand years ago also affected the newly arrived Ancestors. We saw in Chapter 6 how difficult it was to distinguish the makers of the different technologies springing up here and there across this vast stretch of land; we were unable to confirm the presence of Ancestors anywhere north of these mountains before 36 thousand years ago. Even then there was some argument as to how ‘modern’ these people really were as they revealed features in their bodies that some anthropologists interpreted as indicating that they were mating freely with the Neanderthals.

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