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Article: Neanderthals and Modern Humans: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective
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Neanderthals and Modern Humans: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective, by Clive Finlayson. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology 38. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 266 pp. $115.
The extinction of Neanderthals has long been the focus of both scientific discussion and considerable public interest. This group of extinct humans was the end product of a long evolutionary lineage that colonized Europe as early as 500,000 years ago. They lived in Western Eurasia until approximately 30,000 years ago, when they disappeared from the fossil record, about 10,000 years after modern humans arrived in Europe for the first time. Competition with these modern upper ...