| It was these anatomically modern humans which joined or supplanted the Neanderthals in Europe some 40,000 years ago. |
| Modern humans probably exterminated the world's other archaic humans, the Neanderthals in Europe. |
| But what if it didn't happen that way and the Neanderthals were the ones left around? |
| The demise of Neanderthals may, instead, have resembled that of mammoths in North America. |
| This enabled them to track the movements of both Neanderthals and early humans. |
| It's pretty clear that it happened in Europe, which was occupied by both humans and Neanderthals for several thousand years. |
