Neanderthal fossils show a major population drop 110,000 years ago. Researchers link this to reduced genetic diversity.
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Live Science on MSN28,000-year-old Neanderthal-and-human 'Lapedo child' lived tens of thousands of years after our closest relatives went extinctResearchers used a novel method of radiocarbon dating to figure out the age of the Lapedo child, who had both Neanderthal and human traits.
A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens of thousands of years ago.
The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big clues to the causes of their demise.
Drastic climatic changes likely had profound impacts on the genetic and morphological variability of the Neanderthal lineage.
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