Study Shows New Findings on the Extinction of the Neanderthals

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An international study shows that a low genetic diversity contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals about 65,000 years ago - although they made a new invention in their late phase. By Jan Kerckhoff.

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Today we learn in the ARD-tagsschau that the Neanderthals are probably extinct because they have not been genetically FIELDY enough, in German: In the reproduction depended on inbreeding. The explanation goes about this (with our additions): 75,000 years ago today: It becomes saukalt and the Neanderthals, who previously lived widely scattered, they...