Neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusion.
<h4>Background</h4>Despite a long history of investigation, considerable debate revolves around whether Neanderthals became extinct because of climate change or competition with anatomically modern humans (AMH).<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>We apply a new methodology...
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| author | William E Banks Francesco d'Errico A Townsend Peterson Masa Kageyama Adriana Sima Maria-Fernanda Sánchez-Goñi |
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| description | <h4>Background</h4>Despite a long history of investigation, considerable debate revolves around whether Neanderthals became extinct because of climate change or competition with anatomically modern humans (AMH).<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>We apply a new methodology integrating archaeological and chronological data with high-resolution paleoclimatic simulations to define eco-cultural niches associated with Neanderthal and AMH adaptive systems during alternating cold and mild phases of Marine Isotope Stage 3. Our results indicate that Neanderthals and AMH exploited similar niches, and may have continued to do so in the absence of contact.<h4>Conclusions/significance</h4>The southerly contraction of Neanderthal range in southwestern Europe during Greenland Interstadial 8 was not due to climate change or a change in adaptation, but rather concurrent AMH geographic expansion appears to have produced competition that led to Neanderthal extinction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5de222dfbf7e4ead93083675acf9a8082022-12-21T18:33:11ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032008-01-01312e397210.1371/journal.pone.0003972Neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusion.William E BanksFrancesco d'ErricoA Townsend PetersonMasa KageyamaAdriana SimaMaria-Fernanda Sánchez-Goñi<h4>Background</h4>Despite a long history of investigation, considerable debate revolves around whether Neanderthals became extinct because of climate change or competition with anatomically modern humans (AMH).<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>We apply a new methodology integrating archaeological and chronological data with high-resolution paleoclimatic simulations to define eco-cultural niches associated with Neanderthal and AMH adaptive systems during alternating cold and mild phases of Marine Isotope Stage 3. Our results indicate that Neanderthals and AMH exploited similar niches, and may have continued to do so in the absence of contact.<h4>Conclusions/significance</h4>The southerly contraction of Neanderthal range in southwestern Europe during Greenland Interstadial 8 was not due to climate change or a change in adaptation, but rather concurrent AMH geographic expansion appears to have produced competition that led to Neanderthal extinction.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19107186/?tool=EBI |
| spellingShingle | William E Banks Francesco d'Errico A Townsend Peterson Masa Kageyama Adriana Sima Maria-Fernanda Sánchez-Goñi Neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusion. PLoS ONE |
| title | Neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusion. |
| title_full | Neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusion. |
| title_fullStr | Neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusion. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusion. |
| title_short | Neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusion. |
| title_sort | neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusion |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19107186/?tool=EBI |
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