Let’s climb back through our family tree to find out about ancient humans and what happened to Neanderthals.
In this episode of Huh? Science Explained, Evrim Yazgin asks who were Neanderthals? How are modern humans related to them? And whatever happened to these stocky, thick-boned, strong-browed ancient humans? Let’s get out the family tree and find out…
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Originally published by Cosmos as What happened to our closest human cousins, the Neanderthals?
Evrim Yazgin
Evrim Yazgin has a Bachelor of Science majoring in mathematical physics and a Master of Science in physics, both from the University of Melbourne.
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