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It's time we changed our stereotype of the brutish, thuggish Neanderthals, and instead start viewing them with the respect they really deserve.
New find shows we may have been underestimating the Neanderthals.
A new study has dated the final days of the Neanderthals and found they lived at the same time as the earliest modern humans in Europe. Rather than seeing Neanderthals suddenly vanish at the time modern…
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Research Officer, Radiocarbon Facility, Australian National University
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Directora del CENIEH, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH)
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Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology and Paleontology, University of Bath
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Research Fellow in Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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Senior Lecturer in Palaeoanthropology, Liverpool John Moores University
