I thought there was an overlap about 20,000 years ago with Neanderthals and modern-day humans. Or, are they counting Neanderthals as modern-day humans?
Another “science” article using the words “probably” and “could” and “might” and “possibly” = pseudoscience.
Not a lot of difference between Sapiens and Neanderthal. A Neanderthal could walk down the street in modern clothes and not seem out of place. They had fire and homes and buried their dead and took care of their sick. Like any hunter-gatherer civilization. A lot of the characterization of Neanderthals came from earlier anthropologists who assumed they had to be more apelike and assumed behavior patterns that aren’t in evidence.