Climate Change Likely Iced Neanderthals Out Of Existence

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About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals began disappearing from Europe, but exactly why they died out is a mystery. Some paleoarchaeologists have hypothesized it’s possible they simply couldn’t reproduce fast enough to keep up with the modern humans moving into Europe around that time. Others suggest modern humans slaughtered any bands of Neanderthal they came across …

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Leading the way in modelling behaviour of ice sheets

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A team of world-leading polar experts have been trialling a new tool to better predict how ice sheets will evolve over time. Northumbria University, Newcastle is already known as a centre of excellence for research into cold and palaeo environments. It has an outstanding group of glaciology experts with extensive expertise of undertaking research in …

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