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Article: NEANDERTHALS MAY HAVE GONE EXTINCT BECAUSE THEIR CELLS COULDN'T COPE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE
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- The Hindustan Times
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- November 28, 2008
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London, Nov. 28 -- (ANI): A new hypothesis has suggested that the Neanderthals may have gone extinct because their cells couldn't cope with climate change.
The extinction of Neanderthals, close relatives of modern humans, some 25,000 years ago, remains unexplained.
One theory holds that they were physically outcompeted by modern humans , another that they were economically eclipsed by us. Yet another theory suggests that Neanderthals couldn't adapt to climate change.
According to a report in New Scientist, Patrick Chinnery, a molecular biologist at Newcastle University, UK, and colleague Gavin Hudson identified ...