What Happened to the Neanderthals?
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Scientists now know that they shared many of the sophisticated abilities of Homo sapiens. So why are we the only humans left standing? For most of our evolutionary history, humankind was made up of many human kinds. Take the last 100,000 years or so. The oft-caricatured, big-browed Neanderthals …
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