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Climate change was the cause of Neanderthal extinction in the Iberian Peninsula

05-01-2007 · EurekAlert!

Recent studies carried out in Gorham's cave, on Gibraltar, proved to be definitive for this work. Results show that the Neanderthal extinction could have been greatly determined by environmental and climate changes and not by competitiveness with modern humans. The research work was recently published in Quaternary Science Reviews journal.

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