Tenfold Population Increase in Western Europe at the Neandertal-to-Modern Human Transition
Abstract
European Neandertals were replaced by modern human populations from Africa ~40,000 years ago. Archaeological evidence from the best-documented region of Europe shows that during this replacement human populations increased by one order of magnitude, suggesting that numerical supremacy alone may have been a critical factor in facilitating this replacement.
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Science
- Pub Date:
- July 2011
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- Bibcode:
- 2011Sci...333..623M
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- ANTHRO