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An evolutionary medicine perspective on Neandertal extinction
2016-04-06
Abstract excerpt
The Eurasian sympatry of Neandertals and anatomically modern humans – beginning at least 45,000 years ago and lasting for more than 5,000 years – has long sparked anthropological interest into the factors that potentially contributed to Neandertal extinction. Among many different hypotheses, the “differential pathogen resistance” extinction model posits that Neandertals were disproportionately affected by exposure...
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- d3a89723-aea9-58c8-a136-ade661172237
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- 10.1101/047209