Posted on 03/03/2016 9:40:50 AM PST by sparklite2
Some of Europe's earliest inhabitants mysteriously vanished toward the end of the last ice age and were largely replaced by others, a new genetic analysis finds.
The genetic turnover was likely the result of a rapidly changing climate, which the earlier inhabitants of Europe couldn't adapt to quickly enough, said the study's co-author, Cosimo Posth, an archaeogenetics doctoral candidate at the University of Tübingen in Germany.
The temperature change around that time was "enormous compared to the climactic changes that are happening in our century," Posth told Live Science. "You have to imagine that also the environment changed pretty drastically."
Europe has a long and tangled genetic legacy. Genetic studies have revealed that the first modern humans who poured out of Africa, somewhere between 40,000 and 70,000 years ago, soon got busy mating with local Neanderthals. At the beginning of the agricultural revolution, between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago, farmers from the Middle East swept across Europe, gradually replacing the native hunter-gatherers. Around 5,000 years ago, nomadic horsemen called the Yamnaya emerged from the steppes of Ukraine and intermingled with the native population. In addition, another lost group of ancient Europeans mysteriously vanished about 4,500 years ago, a 2013 study in the journal Nature Communications found.
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Why did ancient Europeans just disappear 14,500 Years Ago?
They let in hundreds of thousands of muslim refugees?
Climate BS
I don’t know but they are about to be wiped out by camel humping, women raping, mecca sucking islamos.
Because the ruling T-Rex gobbled everyone else up?
They had liberals in charge.
Great, great, great great great great great..........great Grampa Trump was king.
They didn’t disappear. They
were just pining for the fjords.
History is repeating itself.
Some jokes just write themselves.
BWAHAHAHHAHAHA
so what ended the ice age 14,500 years ago? Why global warming of course
What ended the mini ice age of the 1700s???? Why global warming of course
Global warming may be an indication of sun energy striking the earth (or extra hot air from Al Gore and his cohorts)
Genocide by the humans with African roots against the Neanderthals. We demand reparations from the African Americans for this.
Neanderthal lives matter.
There's your answer right there. Global Warming.
The Sweet Comet of Death.
Hot brought disease and populations from colder climates probably came in.
If they had simply passed laws banning fires in the winter, carbon levels wouldn’t have increased and this wouldn’t have happened.
They actually follow through on their promise to leave when their candidate lost. Unlike the whiners today.
It would take a leap of faith to come up with the right answer.
Doctoral candidate successfully indoctrinated! They've earned the piled higher and deeper label and the accompanying pay cut.
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