Stone Age Herbalist lists what we have recently learned about Neanderthals. Here are the most interesting developments:
- Neanderthals not only made fire but used it in sophisticated ways
- There were several Neanderthal lineages and they were genetically isolated for tens of thousands of years
- All modern human lineages except those originating with Africans interbred with Neanderthals between 45,000 and 49,000 years ago
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[…] an advanced coalescent model to humans to infer their demographic history. We already knew that Neanderthals and non-African modern humans interbred 45,000 to 49,000 years ago, but the new model also evidence for two separate human populations that diverged 1.5 million […]
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