What Killed Neanderthals?

One model postulates that habitat degradation and fragmentation occurred in the Neanderthal territory long before the arrival of modern humans, and that it led to the decimation and eventual disappearance of Neanderthal populations.

What really happened to Neanderthals?

The Neanderthals emerged in Europe as far back as 400,000 years ago. The current theory suggests that they went extinct about 40,000 years ago, not long after Homo sapiens arrived on the continent from Africa.

How did humans beat Neanderthals?

Neanderthals died out in mysterious circumstances about 40,000 years ago and many people believed our own species was to blame. Now scientists have claimed humans really did drove Neanderthals to extinction because we could cope with 'extreme' terrain ranging from baking hot deserts to freezing cold ice fields.