Neanderthals Vanished Because of Their Own Success, Suggests Study
Using data obtained from the archaeological record, a team of researchers at Arizona State University and the University of Colorado, Denver, conducted experiments using complex computer modeling to analyze evidence of how human hunter-gatherers responded culturally and biologically to the dramatic changes that took place during the last Ice Age. The results showed, among other things, that the Neanderthals, thought by many scientists to have become extinct at least in part because of their inadaptability and inability to compete with the expanding presence of modern humans, may have actually been victims of their own success.
The researchers used the archeological record to track human behavioral changes in Late Pleistocene (126,000 - 10,000 B.P.) Western Eurasia over a period of 100,000 years and across the equivalent of 1,500 generations of human hunter-gatherers. Read more.
The skull of a Procoptodon, a genus of the Pleistocene giant kangaroo. It was so called short-faced kangaroo with a flat blunt face.
The largest of them was Procoptodon goliah with height up to 2m and а weight more than 200kg
P. goliah on a stamp
