Neanderthals Suffered A Massive Population Crash 110,000 Years Ago
Neanderthals clung onto existence in Eurasia until roughly 40,000 yr ago , yet new research suggests that their number declined drastically around 70,000 years prior to their eventual experimental extinction . As a event , inherited and forcible diversity within the Neanderthal population plummeted , direct to a mostly homogeneous hardening of characteristic among the mintage ’ last representatives . Understanding how prehistorical hominid became Neanderthalized is something of a conundrum for scientists ....