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Cold climates contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals

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Climate change may have played a more important role in the extinction of Neanderthals than previously believed, according to a new study published in the journal, Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences. A team of researchers from a number of European and American research institutions, including Northumbria University, Newcastle, have produced detailed new natural … Read more

Laziness helped lead to extinction of Homo erectus

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New archaeological research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found that Homo erectus, an extinct species of primitive humans, went extinct in part because they were ‘lazy’. An archaeological excavation of ancient human populations in the Arabian Peninsula during the Early Stone Age, found that Homo erectus used ‘least-effort strategies’ for tool making and … Read more