What caused Neanderthals to die out

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05 Aug 2017, 6:30 pm

London, Aug 5: Early modern humans and Neanderthals shared a similar diet — consisting mainly of mammoth and plants — and also competed for food which led to their downfall, new research has claimed. “According to our results, Neanderthals and the early modern humans were in direct competition in regard to their diet, as well — and it appears that the Neanderthals drew the short straw in this contest,” said Dorothee Drucker, biogeologist from the University of Tubingen in Germany.

The first representatives of Homo sapiens colonised Europe around 43,000 years ago, replacing the Neanderthals there approximately 3,000 years later. “Many studies examine the question of what led to this displacement — one hypothesis postulates that the diet of the atomically modern humans was more diverse and flexible and often included fish,” added Herve Bocherens from the University of Tubingen. (IANS)

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