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"Did modern humans wipe out the Neanderthal people who inhabited Europe until 28,000 years ago, or did the two populations merge through interbreeding? New DNA evidence, extracted from the ribs of a Neanderthal infant, one of the last of its kind, supports the thesis that these hardy, beetle-browed people left little or no genetic legacy in today's populations.
Even though Neanderthals perished long ago, the surprising retrieval of intact DNA, the second such sample to be recovered, has set biologists speculating that with further finds the genetics of this extinct human species could become quite well understood."
BBC 'Single mutation led to language'
"A controversial new theory suggests that the power of speech and language resulted from a single mutation in the brain of one man who lived many tens of thousands of years ago.
The idea has been put forward by Professor Tim Crow, a respected psychiatrist from Oxford University, UK."
"These are important questions because they may help explain why H. sapiens flourished at the expense of all other human-like creatures such as the Neanderthals. A sophisticated form of have over his rivals."
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