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Article: Survival of the Weakest.(The Take; Science)(Neanderthals and modern humans)
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- Newsweek
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- November 9, 2009
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Byline: Sharon Begley
Why Neanderthals went extinct.
Thanks to recent discoveries that they were canny hunters, clever toolmakers, and probably endowed with the gift of language, Neanderthals have overcome some of the nastier calumnies hurled at them, especially that they were the "dumb brutes of the North," as evolutionary ecologist Clive Finlayson describes their popular image. But they have never managed to shake the charge that their extinction 30,000 years ago, when our subspecies of Homo sapiens replaced them in their European home, was their own dumb fault. Modern humans mounted a genocidal assault on them, goes one explanation, triumphing through ...
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