What really happened to Neanderthals? Scientists finally solve extinction mystery |
For decades, scientists have been trying to unravel the mystery surrounding the extinction of Neanderthal, ancient humans, in contrast to the established presence of modern humans.
Various studies offered different insights related to growing competition, advent of Ice age and climate change that led to the mysterious extinction of Neanderthals.
A new research study conducted by Ariane Burke, a professor of anthropology at Université de Montréal and head of the Hominin Dispersals Research Group in Quebec, is offering a new insight based on the digital ecology approach.
"Obviously, we don't have precise demographic data for populations living 35,000 years ago, so we used ethnographic data from........