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A simple analytical model for Neanderthal disappearance due to genetic dilution by recurrent small-scale immigrations of modern humans [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The disappearance of Neanderthals remains a subject of intense debate, with competing hypotheses attributing their demise to demographic decline, environmental change, competition with Homo sapiens, or genetic assimilation.
Andrea Amadei, Giulia Lin, Simone Fattorini   +2 more
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Genetic Evidence of Geographical Groups among Neanderthals [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
The Neanderthals are a well-distinguished Middle Pleistocene population which inhabited a vast geographical area extending from Europe to western Asia and the Middle East.
Silvana Condemi, Anna Degioanni
exaly   +2 more sources

Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction

Cell Genomics
Summary: Neanderthal genomes have been recovered from sites across Eurasia, painting an increasingly complex picture of their populations’ structure that mostly indicates that late European Neanderthals belonged to a single metapopulation with no ...
Lee Arnold, Ludovic Slimak, Martina Demuro   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Neanderthal coasteering and the first Portuguese hominin tracksites [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Multiple sources of evidence for the systematic use of coastal ecosystems and resources by Neanderthals are known. Fossil hominin footprints offer direct portraits of individual or social group presence and locomotor behavior, and interspecific ...
Carlos Neto de Carvalho, Pedro Proença Cunha, João Belo, Fernando Muñiz, Andrea Baucon, Mário Cachão, Silvério Figueiredo, Jan-Pieter Buylaert, José María Galán, Zain Belaústegui, Luis Miguel Cáceres, Yilu Zhang, Cristiana Ferreira, Joaquín Rodríguez-Vidal, Stewart Finlayson, Geraldine Finlayson, Clive Finlayson   +16 more
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Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The site of Lehringen (Germany) has played a pivotal role in the study of the hunting behavior of Neanderthals. The finding of a 2.38 m long wooden thrusting spear was at the time of discovery in 1948 the only complete Palaeolithic hunting tool, dating ...
Ivo Verheijen, Gianpiero Di Maida, Gabriele Russo, Thomas Terberger   +3 more
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Use it or lose it: A model-based assessment of the hypothesis that European Neanderthals relied on wildfires to create their campfires [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] [PDF]

Open Research Europe
Background There remains debate about the pyrotechnical capabilities of Neanderthals. Evidence of fire has been found at many Middle Palaeolithic sites, widely accepted to be associated with Neanderthals. However, multiple Neanderthal sites show a marked
Andreu Arinyo i Prats, Dennis Sandgathe, Felix Riede, Mark Collard   +3 more
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Modern Humans Did Not Admix with Neanderthals during Their Range Expansion into Europe

PLoS Biology, 2004
The process by which the Neanderthals were replaced by modern humans between 42,000 and 30,000 before present is still intriguing. Although no Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineage is found to date among several thousands of Europeans and in ...
Mathias Currat, Laurent Excoffier
exaly   +2 more sources

Earliest evidence of Neanderthal multifunctional bone tool production from cave lion (Panthera spelaea) remains [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Throughout history, humans have had a complex relationship with lions, both reverencing and fearing them. Interactions between Neanderthals and cave lions (Panthera spelaea) remain poorly documented due to the scarcity of direct evidence.
Grégory Abrams, Patrick Auguste, Stéphane Pirson, Isabelle De Groote, Éva Halbrucker, Kévin Di Modica, Camille Pironneau, Tristan Dedrie, Carlo Meloro, Valentin Fischer, Hervé Bocherens, Yves Vanbrabant, Fabrice Bray   +12 more
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How Our Neanderthal Genes Affect the COVID-19 Mortality: Iran and Mongolia, Two Countries with the Same SARS-CoV-2 Mutation Cluster but Different Mortality Rates [PDF]

Journal of Biomedical Physics and Engineering, 2021
Neanderthal genes possibly gave modern human protection against viruses. However, a recent study revealed that that a long sequence of DNA that is inherited from our Neanderthal ancestors can be linked to severe COVID-19 infection and hospitalization ...
S A R Mortazavi, A Kaveh-Ahangar, S M J Mortazavi, D Firoozi, M Haghani   +4 more
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Climate change in Europe between 90 and 50 kyr BP and Neanderthal territorial habitability. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
After having lived as the dominant human species in Europe for over 200 kyr, Homo neanderthalensis (the Neanderthals) disappeared around 40 kyr BP (Before Present) Higham T (2014). Competition with Homo sapiens, who arrived in Europe around the same time,
Anna Degioanni, Sandrine Cabut, Silvana Condemi, Robin S Smith   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources