The Mystery of the GHOST DNA in Prehistoric Fossil Man

The Mystery of the GHOST DNA in Prehistoric Fossil Man. For over a century, the extinction of the Neanderthals has puzzled scholars, archaeologists, and geneticists alike. Their disappearance, roughly 40,000 years ago, has often been portrayed as the inevitable decline of an archaic cousin overshadowed by the superior intelligence and efficiency of Homo sapiens.

But recent discoveries suggest that this narrative is overly simplistic. Instead of a single, homogenous population slowly pushed out by our ancestors, the Neanderthals were far more complex, genetically diverse, and geographically fragmented than previously imagined

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