Neanderthals may never have gone extinct-just absorbed by Homo sapiens sapiens
Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, who won the medicine Nobel prize last weekhttps://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221013-neanderthals-humans-co-existed-in-europe-for-over-2-000-years-study; the original article appears in Nature Scientific Reports here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-19162-z.
Another series of recently released articles shares new research on Neanderthal families: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221019-first-concrete-picture-of-neanderthal-family-revealed-by-dna, and the source Nature articles: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03339-7; and https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05283-y.
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