Nowhere Men: Scientists Debate What Happened to the Neandertals

Did love or war do them in?

Their story would make a ghost proud. Some 28,000 years have passed since these mysterious people died, yet they continue to haunt us.

The ancient population known as Neandertals has been giving scientists grief for nearly 150 years, ever since the first evidence of their kind turned up in Germany's Neander Valley. Over the decades, researchers have struggled to answer the most basic questions about these ice-age

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