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Originally Posted by questor

If the Neandertals were a separate branch from Sapiens, when did the split occur and where did each group originate?

Honestly! Didn't even bother to read the links MoonTan posted did you!? Search your questions on Google or somer other engine perhaps? No!? Really? Get to your specifics and don't play coy.

If the Neanderthals were a separate branch from Sapiens, when did the split occur and where did each group originate? - Google Search

How Modern Were European Neanderthals?

ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2006) — Neandertals were much more like modern humans than had been previously thought, according to a re-examination of finds from one of the most famous palaeolithic sites in Europe by Bristol University archaeologist, Professor Joao Zilhao, and his French colleagues.
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Professor Zilhao said: "This discovery, along with research on the rock strata at other cave sites, has huge implications for how we view the European Neandertals and, more widely, human evolution. The differences between Neandertals and modern humans may be much less than had been previously thought, suggesting that human cognition and symbolic thinking may date back to before the two sub-species split around 400,000 years ago."