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Neanderthals

27th October, 2022

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Context

  • Nobel laureate Svante Paabo and his team have published genetic studies of Neanderthals.

 

Neanderthals

  • Neanderthals are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago.
  • Together with an Asian people known as Denisovans, Neanderthals are our closest ancient human relatives. Scientific evidence suggests our two species shared a common ancestor.
  • Current evidence from both fossils and DNA suggests that Neanderthal and modern human lineages separated at least 500,000 years ago.
  • While the causes of Neanderthal disappearance about 40,000 years ago remain highly contested, demographic factors such as small population size, inbreeding, and random fluctuations are considered probable factors.
  • Other scholars have proposed competitive replacement, assimilation into the modern human genome (bred into extinction), great climatic change, disease, or a combination of these factors.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-sci-tech/what-was-neanderthals-family-life-like-dna-grants-a-glimpse-8225715/