Downstate Medical Center: Did a Common Childhood Illness Take Down the Neanderthals?
September 19, 2019
September 19, 2019
BROOKLYN, New York, Sept. 19 -- Downstate Medical Center issued the following news release:
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- A 21st Century Nuisance for Parents May Have Proved Deadly to Early Man
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It is one of the great unsolved mysteries of anthropology. What killed off the Neanderthals, and why did Homo sapiens thrive even as Neanderthals withered to extinction? Was it some sort of plague specific only to Neanderthals? Was there some sort of cataclysmic event i . . .
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- A 21st Century Nuisance for Parents May Have Proved Deadly to Early Man
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It is one of the great unsolved mysteries of anthropology. What killed off the Neanderthals, and why did Homo sapiens thrive even as Neanderthals withered to extinction? Was it some sort of plague specific only to Neanderthals? Was there some sort of cataclysmic event i . . .