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Article: Neanderthals might have been wiped out due to cannibalism
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- The Hindustan Times
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- February 28, 2008
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Washington, Feb. 28 -- A new theory has suggested that the extinction of Neanderthals 30,000 years ago may have happened because of cannibalism among the group.
Though Neanderthals had emerged 250,000 years ago, their disappearance from the face of the Earth 30,000 years ago has long been a subject of mystery.
Now, a new theoretical model by Simon Underdown, a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, has tried to resolve the longstanding mystery by attributing the cause of Neanderthal extinction to cannibalism.
According to Discovery News, Underdown studied a well-documented tribal ...