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This would indicate Neanderthal authorship, and similar iconography recorded in other Western European sites—such as Les Merveilles, France, and Cueva del Castillo, Spain—could potentially also have Neanderthal origins. Upper Palaeolithic modern humans in the Russian plains are thought to have also made housing structures out of mammoth bones. Dans la dernière étude, l'équipe a confirmé la précision de cette analyse et a eu recours à des tests numériques démontrant que la variation génétique n'était pas uniquement due au hasard.
Les résultats qu'ils ont obtenus les ont surpris : les deux Hommes de Néandertal européens datés à 120 000 ans étaient plus proches des néandertaliens qui parcouraient l'Europe des dizaines de milliers d'années plus tard que du Néandertalien de l'Altaï découvert en Sibérie vivant à la même époque. Individuals with severe head and rib traumas (which would have caused massive blood loss) indicate they had some manner of dressing major wounds, and bandages could have been made from animal skin. However, compared to modern humans, Neanderthals had a similar or higher genetic diversity for 12 major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes associated with the adaptive immune system, casting doubt on this model. [189] Further, a computer reconstruction of the Neanderthal nose and predicted soft tissue patterns shows some similarities to those of modern Arctic peoples, potentially meaning the noses of both populations convergently evolved for breathing cold, dry air. Cave lions likely targeted horses, large deer and wild cattle; and leopards primarily reindeer and roe deer; which heavily overlapped with Neanderthal diet. [368] The Neanderthals of the German Hohlenstein-Stadel have deeply divergent mtDNA compared to more recent Neanderthals, possibly due to introgression of human mtDNA between 316–219 thousand years ago, or simply because they were genetically isolated.
Cette similarité génétique entre les Néandertaliens d'Europe et la moitié néandertalienne de la femme hybride montre que ces individus étaient peut-être membres du groupe qui a remplacé les premiers résidents de la grotte de Denisova. Though knowledge and perception of them has markedly changed since then in the scientific community, the image of the unevolved caveman archetype remains prevalent in popular culture. Stringer said scientists cannot say whether the sex took place in peaceful relationships, or whether the groups stole each other’s women, or whether abandoned or orphaned babies from one group were adopted by the other. sapiens). Compared to modern humans, Neanderthals had a more robust build and proportionally shorter limbs. [333] However, behavioural modernity is regarded as a process initiated much earlier, potentially as early as 400,000 years ago,[334] and may have also been exhibited in Neanderthals.