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"Homo sapiens appears to have originated from the coalescence of South and, possibly, East-African source populations, while North-African fossils may represent a population which introgressed into Neandertals during the Late Middle Pleistocene" https://t.co/8Lms0QFVMp

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2019-09-10

The Neandertal skull Amud-1 was found in 1961, highly compressed and fragmented. Dated 50-70 ka. Cranial capacity 1736 cc!! (largest among Neandertals)

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2019-06-28

Nuclear DNA from two early Neandertals reveals 80,000 years of genetic continuity in Europe https://t.co/xgQpo0kIR0

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2019-06-27

Homo neanderthalensis divided the work by sexes, they knew the medicinal use of certain plants, their diet included mushrooms, pine nuts and moss, and they would have practiced cannibalism.

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2019-04-12