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Competition, Not Climate Change, Led To Neanderthal Extinction, Study Shows
ScienceDaily (Dec. 30, 2008) — In a recently conducted study, a multidisciplinary French-American research team with expertise in archaeology, past climates, and ecology reported that Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with Cro-Magnon populations, rather than the consequences of climate change.
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The study was reported in the open access journal PLoS ONE:
PLoS ONE: Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion