Archive for the tag 'Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology'

Jul 22 2009

Novel Techniques Suggest Neanderthal Populations Dwindled in the Face of Expanding Humans

Published by AnneH under genetics 101, news

The Neanderthals have always held a special place in the field of anthropology.  The skeletal remains of our short, stocky evolutionary relatives have been found everywhere from Spain to Iraq.
Their physical likeness to our own species, and the possibility that humans and Neanderthals may have interacted, has long fascinated experts and enthusiastic novices alike.  But [...]

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