[ClearCase_guy]

The researchers acknowledge that there are gaps in the volcanoes theory. For instance, the time line needs to be better defined -- did the volcanic eruptions occur in a period of months, years, or decades? ...It's also unknown exactly how long it took the Neanderthals to die out -- or how long after the eruptions modern humans began settling Europe in force, she said.

What caused "all the volcanoes" to erupt "around the same time"? We don't know.
What's the timeline for this event? We don't know.
How long did it take them to die out? We don't know.
How did this effect human settlements? We don't know.

Why are you publishing such an empty paper? Hey, I'm looking for tenure, man.

[bigheadfred]

What really Killed Off Neanderthals...Publish or Die!

[Gondring]

There are a lot of weird things in this pre-publication reporting. It will be interesting to see how much is NatGeo's poor reporting and how much is the actual study. It will also be interesting to see who is doing their geology and palynology. I'm not really confident in it, from what I read here.

And why the volcanic eruptions? Gee...maybe

[Bernard Marx]

Sad was the day that “scientists” discovered the popular media — or was it the other way around? Things have never been the same since.

[BuddhaBrown]

“We don’t know...”

But these standards, I don’t know so much I could write a book on the subject.