Erik Trinkaus
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Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor in Arts & Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis. Author of The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind and others.
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Neanderthal, (Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis), member of a group of archaic humans who emerged at least 200,000 years ago during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) and were replaced or assimilated by early modern human populations (Homo sapiens)…
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