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Article: Study: Neanderthals and modern humans never mixed
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- AP Worldstream
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- March 6, 2003
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The Neanderthal was a squat, powerful hunter who dominated Europe
for more than 100,000 years, but he disappeared forever when modern
humans evolved in Africa and moved to the other continents.
There is no convincing evidence, says Richard G. Klein of Stanford
University, that Neanderthals and modern humans ever mixed in substantial
numbers, which means that when the Neanderthals died out, so did their
genes.
"The Neanderthals may thus be regarded as a fascinating, but extinct,
side branch of humanity," Klein writes in the journal Science.
This view, based on genetic and fossil studies, contradicts some studies
that have suggested ...