October 16, 1998
Are Neandertals Losing Their Grip on the Human Family Tree?
Paleoanthropologists debate new evidence pointing to a different lineage
A century-long dispute among scientists over whether Neandertals were the ancestors of modern humans shows no signs of ending peacefully or agreeably.
Nevertheless, it may end soon. New genetic and fossil evidence suggests that the brawny, thick-browed hominids who lived for nearly 300,000 years in Europe and the Middle East had little in common with the
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