BBC News: Did climate kill off the Neanderthals?

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7873373.stm

Did climate kill off the Neanderthals?

By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News

Climate change, we're told, poses the single gravest threat to the survival of our species.

And if the experience of our ancient relatives the Neanderthals is anything to go by, we should take note of the warnings.

Recent research has suggested that climate change may have been the killer blow that finished off our closest evolutionary cousins.

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Professor Finlayson, who has written a book on the problem called The Humans Who Went Extinct, says: "What we found was a climatic event in the marine core, taken offshore from the Iberian margin. We found confirmation of other people's results that there was a moment when the sea surface temperatures are the lowest for the previous quarter of a million years.

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[MrPerson]

1. Nope, they were on the Sunday talk shows today.

[yellerpup]

3. LOL!

:rofl:

[Turbineguy]

2. I thought it was the insurance premiums.

[theoldman]

4. I am still betting that it was disease.

Europeans killed off the Native Americans with disease. The flu came from China where most people are immune. If I remember correctly the plague also came from Asia.

[OKIsItJustMe]

5. How about disease spurred on by climate change?

http://www.who.int/globalchange/climate/summary/en/

[RC]

6. I thought it was the murderous Homo sapiens that did in the Neanderthals.