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Cannibalism May Have Wiped Out Neanderthals


Science & Tech  (tags: neanderthal, cannibalism, extinction )

Ingrid
- 670 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
A Neanderthal-eat-Neanderthal world may have spread a mad cow-like disease that weakened and reduced populations of the large Eurasian human, thereby contributing to its extinction, according to a new theory based on cannibalism that took place in more r
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Dan Mahony (45)
Wednesday February 27, 2008, 4:22 pm
Great Story and Picture, Ingrid! Reminds me of Sunstroke's author, Dr. David Kagan's new book, Doomwatch Legacy-- a dissertation on things to come, based on our history of humankind.
 
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