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environmental shocks
Coverage of environmental shocks in the Nexus archive.
- Scientists think they finally know why Neanderthals vanished
A new study suggests Neanderthals went extinct not due to climate change or competition with Homo sapiens, but because Homo sapiens had stronger, more flexible social networks. Neanderthals' fragile, regionally limited connections made them less resilient to environmental unpredictability.