“We know that Neanderthal populations were already small, fragmented and affected by inbreeding, and the effects of these characteristics alone may explain their demise. They may have been hanging on for thousands of years before … ‘a stroke of bad luck’ tipped their population over a balance point and led to their demise.”
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Homo sapien invasion may not have prompted Neanderthals’ demise 40,000 years ago
