A blow to evolution?
‘A blow to evolution?’
No.
RE: A blow to evolution?
Not really a blow to evolution, just another change of historical guesses to “fit” the current evidence. Originally the theory was Homo sapiens lived side by side with Neanderthals and interbred with them and later, maybe even displaced or killed them.
Now this latest find suggests that humans didn’t kill the Neanderthals; they died before we got there.
I guess the pertinent question is -— “Do we honestly think we understand the Human-Neanderthal relationship better than we did twenty-five years ago? If so, in what ways?”