Sunday, May 6, 2007

Climate Change, Not Humans, Trounced Neanderthals - Yahoo! News

Climate Change, Not Humans, Trounced Neanderthals - Yahoo! News: "Neanderthals disappeared from Earth more than 20,000 years ago, but figuring out why continues to challenge anthropologists. One team of scientists, however, now says they have evidence to back climate change as the main culprit.

The Iberian Peninsula, better known as present-day Spain and Portugal, was one of the last Neanderthal refuges. Many scientists have thought that out-hunting by Homo sapiens and interbreeding with them brought Neanderthals to their demise, but climate change has also been proposed. "

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