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New Studies Challenge Idea That Smarter Humans Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

The findings shift the cause toward population forces over brain power.

Skhūl Child Fossil Shows Mixed Human–Neanderthal Traits, Pushing Interbreeding to 140,000 Years Ago

140,000-Year-Old Skhul Child Shows Mixed Traits, Pointing to Early Human–Neanderthal Interbreeding