Shift in Scientific Consensus About Demise of Neanderthals - Phys Org

Let's scrap the traditional view that smarter modern humans out-competed their Neanderthal cousins, because for one thing it's no longer the standard scientific opinion. A Leiden University survey of 216 researchers gave the surveyors an unexpected result, with "demographic factors" now felt to be the main cause of our cousins' demise. Merjin Van Nuland explains, noting recent discoveries of Neanderthal thought that had been regarded the sole province of our direct ancestors. An example of those surprises is Toothpick Use Identified on Neanderthal Tooth from Poland. We now have "Additional evidence of Neanderthal hygiene practices"! Another surprise has been a long time coming, but we now know that Scythians Led More Complex Lives Than Previously Assumed. A University of Michigan-led team has discovered that Scythian life was much more diverse and often less mobile than the traditional, "romantic" view of "warrior nomads" first sketched by the Greek Herodotus in the 5th century BCE. (WM)

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