Neanderthal Populations

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This paper discusses how it is widely hypothesized that the Neanderthal or archaic Homo sapiens' abrupt disappearance and the sudden appearance of Modern Homo sapiens is due to violent competition with this or other related populations. It looks at how there are other documented theories that are seemingly more popular and provides an overview of the leading theories and identifies that racism may play a role in how data is interpreted.

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"It is widely hypothesized that the Neanderthal or archaic Homo sapiens' abrupt disappearance and the sudden appearance of Modern Homo sapiens is due to violent competition with this or other related populations (Cro-Magnon man para. 1). However, there are other documented theories that are seemingly more popular including that Neanderthals starved to extinction; that they did not evolve technologically or socially and therefore could not compete for food; and interbreeding resulted in their traits disappearing (Seebach para. 7). To date, scientists are divided on these leading theories and to make matters more complex, are still acknowledging racial biases and the affect this has had on the collection of data and development of theory (Cartmill para. 23). "

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