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Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 213.6 to int loses precision in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\kidney.de\httpdocs\pget.php on line 534 Proc+Natl+Acad+Sci+U+S+A 2016 ; 113 (8): 2134-9 Nephropedia Template TP
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An ecocultural model predicts Neanderthal extinction through competition with modern humans #MMPMID26831111
Gilpin W; Feldman MW; Aoki K
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016[Feb]; 113 (8): 2134-9 PMID26831111show ga
Ecocultural niche modeling and radiocarbon dating suggest a causal role for interspecific competition in the extinction of Neanderthals. Most archaeologists argue that the advantage to modern humans lay in a higher culture level (a sizable minority dispute this view). Competition between the two species may have occurred when a modern human propagule entered a region occupied by a larger Neanderthal population. We present a model for this replacement, stressing the importance of the founder effect. Our findings shed light on the disappearance of the Neanderthals, showing that endogenous factors such as relative culture level, rather than such extrinsic factors as epidemics or climate change, could have caused the eventual exclusion of a comparatively larger population by an initially smaller one.