"Competitive exclusion" and the extinction of Neandertals: should we believe it?
I've been out of e-mail range for the past week. In the meantime several people e-mailed me this new paper: Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive ExclusionBackground: Despite a long history of...
View ArticleLes Rois revisited, and dental classification of other Aurignacian individuals
I pointed a couple of weeks ago to the Les Rois Neandertal paper by Ramirez Rozzi and colleagues. In the new article section of Journal of Human Evolution, Shara Bailey, Tim Weaver and Jean-Jacques...
View ArticleNeandertal stories on parade
Long-time science journalist Robin McKie has a long article in The Observer about the Neandertals this weekend: "Neanderthals: how needles and skins gave us the edge on our kissing cousins". The...
View ArticleNeandertals didn't disappear before 40,000 years ago
The science press has its own synchronized cycle, like brain waves, and being in Rome seems to make me into a misfiring neuron. Here it is tomorrow, and there's this story about Neandertals all being...
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