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Article: Did Neanderthals fancy Homo sapiens?
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- International Herald Tribune
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- February 17, 2005
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John Noble Wilford
International Herald Tribune
02-17-2005
The scientists did not get around to the nitty-gritty question until the fourth hour of a two-and-a-half day symposium on Neanderthals. A strong consensus was emerging, they agreed, that the now-extinct Neanderthals were a distinct evolutionary entity from modern humans, presumably a different species. They were archaic members of the human family, robust with heavy brow ridges and forward-projecting faces, who lived in Europe and western Asia from at least 250,000 years ago until they vanished from the fossil record about 28,000 years ago.Neanderthals may have seen their first modern Homo sapiens some 100,000 years ago in what is ...