Historical event

Last Neanderthal Populations

Date: about 40,000 Years Ago

The period when the last known populations of Neanderthals disappeared, possibly due to climate change, competition with Homo sapiens, or assimilation.

Tags: neanderthal extinction, last neanderthals, homo sapiens interaction, paleoanthropology, upper paleolithic, human evolution

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