Human weapons may not have caused the demise of the Neanderthals

Human weapons may not have caused the demise of the Neanderthals
Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) May 01, 2015 - The demise of Neanderthals may have nothing to do with innovative hunting weapons carried by humans from west Asia, according to a new study published in the Journal of Human Evolution. The researchers, from Nagoya University and The University of Tokyo, Japan, say their findings mean that we may need to rethink the reasons humans survived Neanderthals - and that we may not have behaved as diffe ... more

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