This reports an international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, in the magazine Nature .
The team also discovered that the last remains of Neanderthals from the come. Belgian Spy
By using a new method for dating sites, the researchers came to the Neanderthal era 40,000 years ago at the end discovered. That is 10,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Even though there is no evidence that Neanderthals and gay sapiens lived in the same place, it is now clear that both types contemporaries were 2,600 to 5,400 years on the European continent. At that time, Europe was, according to the team ‘mosaic’ of Neanderthals and modern humans had sex themselves and their culture exchanged.
Gradually got modern humans prevailed and the Neanderthals disappeared. For their demise are crossing found outside Africa are between the two species. It was recently announced that up to two percent contains the DNA of modern humans except Africans, Neanderthal DNA.
By applying the new dating method, the researchers also discovered that the youngest remains of the robust Neanderthals come from the cave of the Belgian Spy between Charleroi and Namur, and not from southern Spain, as was assumed.
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