What we don’t see with Neandertals is long-distance exchanges with other groups. What we see with modern humans in the same area is different.
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Western Europe has long been held to be the 'cradle' of Neandertal evolution since many of the earliest discoveries were from sites in this region. 
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Modern humans evolved about 200000 years ago — and by 20000 years ago we had taken over the world, wiping out all our would-be competitors, like Neanderthals.
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Homo neanderthalensis is not a species to be dismissed lightly. They weren't especially dumb, nor especially weak. Indeed, they actually had larger brains and denser muscles than we did.
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Of course, this is inevitably subjective; an attempt to read the minds of humans who lived tens of thousands of years ago from the scant markings they left behind - if they were from our species at all. But it's one of the few ways we have to start assembling hypotheses about prehistoric people's beliefs and culture, in the hope that we can one day test them with newer scientific techniques.
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A genetic study of two Neanderthal females found in Croatia has revealed that they had brown hair and brown eyes.
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Most Neanderthals in Europe died off around 50,000 years ago, new research suggests.
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New published research from anthropologists in the UK supports the long-held theory that early human ancestors across Africa, Western Asia and Europe engineered their stone tools. ...
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