Kevin Tarr wrote:
>
> At 11:01 AM 4/29/2004, you wrote:
>
> >There have been discussions here about Neanderthals
> >(not you, Mike Lee!) So you might be interested in the following
> >abstract of an article in today's issue of Nature. (If your library
> >access is like mine, you might get to read the article in a month.)
> >
> >It is an interesting idea: Neanderthals, though intelligent, were
> >adapted for a low-tech, cold weather evolutionary niche. So maybe
> >they were a different species--the debate goes on.
> >
> > ---David
>
> So global warming killed them? Interesting.
Very funny!
Around 80K years ago, they were still in the Middle East, alongside
our own (sub)species. But later they seem not to have been found
there. Around 40K years ago, they were still all over Europe. But
not that long afterward, they were no longer found.
Driven out by our (sub)species, once we got good enough to
out-compete them.
---David
Or maybe they're still around, as trolls...
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