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The Naked Scientists Podcast
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Are Neanderthals Related?
Do you think the two are connected? It's possible. Neanderthals really go extinct in Eurasia about 40,000 years ago. So that's a good kind of 14,000 years more recently than these particular artifacts. But one suggestion they're making is that these are sort of early phrase by modern humans into Europe with this more kind of complex technology. And that that might have played a role in giving them perhaps a competitive edge over Neanderthals.
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