A Hidden Lineage: New Insights into Neanderthal Evolution
A New Discovery Sheds Light on Neanderthal Diversity
In a very groundbreaking, surprising study1, researchers have revealed that European Neanderthals consisted of at least two distinct populations, evolving in isolation for tens of thousands of years. Long regarded as a relatively homogenous group, Neanderthals may have had a much more complex evolutionary history, characterized by local extinctions and m…
