It is not a coincidence that Neanderthals vanished just at the time, when Homo sapiens started to spread into Europe' said research lead Axel Timmermann, director of IBS Center for Climate Physics.
Competition for resources between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens was the reason for our ancient relatives' demise, new research suggests. Supercomputer simulations have found that Neanderthal extinction—believed to have occurred between 43 to 38 thousand years ago—was unlikely to have been caused by shifts in the climate or interbreeding with travelers from our species.
Experts say that Neanderthals lived in Europe, southwest and central Asia from about 400,000 to 40,000 years ago and are considered to be the closest ancient human relatives, with evidence pointing to both species sharing a common ancestor. Another theory was that their demise was tied to competition for resources with early modern humans who started to arrive in Europe over 40,000 years ago., poured data through the"Aleph" supercomputer housed at the institute.
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