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To: Red Badger
They were subsumed by Homo Sapiens.............

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Neanderthals were rapidly made extinct, along with archaic Homo sapiens, by the invasion of new Homo sapiens, sometimes referred to as Cro Magnon, who were the first "Humans" having power of cognitive thought (i.e., abstract thought including language). This was accompanied by a critical genetic marker known as the D-allele.

As we know, there was a limited amount of cross-breeding; but, it is more likely that was between Neanderthal and archaic Homo sapiens, who then had limited reproductive contact with the new, genius breed.

This invasion of our mentally-modern (as opposed to anatomically modern) human ancestors entered the world in north-central Eurasia somewhere around 40,000 years ago.

28 posted on 05/03/2024 11:44:26 AM PDT by Disestablishmentarian (#T-Party 2024)
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To: Disestablishmentarian

human ancestors entered the world in north-central Eurasia somewhere around 40,000 years ago.


And had been around for some 260,000 years prior, according to mitochondrial DNA.


63 posted on 05/03/2024 12:40:31 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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