ヨーロッパにおける現代人の早期の分散とネアンデルタール人の行動への影響

Stefano Benazzi1, Katerina Douka, Cinzia Fornai

  • 1Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria. stefano.benazzi@univie.ac.at

Nature
|November 4, 2011
PubMed
まとめ

最も古いヨーロッパの解剖学的に近代的な人間 (ホモ・サピエンス) は,イタリアで発見され,4万5千年前に遡る. この発見は,現代の人類が,これまで考えられていたよりも早くヨーロッパに到着し,ネアンデルタール人の絶滅を先行したことを示しています.

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