[language] Neanderthal man challenges African Eve

[H. Mark Hubey]

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THE GUARDIAN
Neanderthal man challenges African Eve
Tim Radford, science editor
Guardian

Friday January 12, 2001

Four US anthropologists today throw the story of human origins into confusion.
They claim that new evidence shows that modern humans could have partly
descended from the neanderthals, the hulking creatures who held Europe during
the ice ages.

The research, published in the US journal Science, is likely to cause a storm.
It challenges the reigning "African Eve" hypothesis: that after a series of
false starts, a group descended from just one woman emerged in Africa 250,000
years ago. Some of their descendants left Africa 100,000 years ago, shouldered
aside all other species of human and took over the planet.

Instead, the US researchers argue, modern Homo sapiens is made up of more than
one group of ancestors. Instead of competing for resources, different human
groups shared food, shelter - and partners.

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