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There was a race that was the master of Europe for 400,000 years. Then, one day, only one remained. For over a century, we called Neanderthals savages. Primitive men with hunched postures and hair all over their bodies. But their true appearance was completely different. Light skin and sparse body hair. They were people you might not recognize even if they were sitting next to you on the subway. People who cared for the sick, buried the dead, and painted on cave walls. Yet, pushed from all of Europe to a single cave at the tip of the Iberian Peninsula, the moment finally arrived when they would be the last one left. But they did not disappear. The traces of their encounters spanning 200,000 years remain in your DNA today. #Neanderthals #LastSurvivors #HumanEvolution #Prehistory #Extinction #DNA #Interbreeding #HomoSapiens #Fossil #Paleoanthropology #SvantePävo #NobelPrize #LibraryOfHumanity 🧑🏻‍🏫👉 References Green, R. E. et al. (2010). A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome. Science. Higham, T. et al. (2014). The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance. Nature. Lalueza-Fox, C. et al. (2007). A Melanocortin 1 Receptor Allele Suggests Varying Pigmentation Among Neanderthals. Science. Rendu, W. et al. (2014). Evidence supporting an intentional Neandertal burial at La Chapelle-aux-Saints. PNAS. Hoffmann, D. L. et al. (2018). U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art. Science. Krause, J. et al. (2007). The Derived FOXP2 Variant of Modern Humans Was Shared with Neandertals. Current Biology. D'Anastasio, R. et al. (2013). Micro-Biomechanics of the Kebara 2 Hyoid. PLOS ONE. Zeberg, H. & Paabo, S. (2020). The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals. Nature. Petr, M. et al. (2020). The evolutionary history of Neanderthal and Denisovan Y chromosomes. Science.