Hypothesis: A modern human range expansion ~300,000 years ago explains Neandertal origins

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This paper demonstrates the feasibility of the hypothesis that Neandertals formed when a population using recently developed Levallois stone tool technology expanded between 400-250 thousand years ago (ka). In Europe, their range expansion into an area with Sima de los Huesos-like people led to massive introgression of local archaic genes producing a population with around 95% archaic ancestry (Neandertals); if th...

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• Adaptation, Biological
• Biological Evolution
• Genetic Variation
• Genome, Human
• Hybridization, Genetic
• Indians, North American
• Neanderthals
• Sequence Analysis, DNA

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Literature Corpus work

0b83a19b-f0a2-5b71-a9fe-f427e08dcfb5

DOI

10.64898/2026.03.11.711219