Our Fossil Find Suggests Humans Spread To Asia Way Before They Got To Europe

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New discovery has put some teeth into our understanding of human evolution. Credit: S. Xing and X-J. Wu

It’s hard not to feel slightly superior when you belong to the only human species on the planet. Behind us there is a long track of extinct relatives that did not make it to our days. The Neanderthals in Europe went extinct some 40,000 years ago, just as we got there – leading us to believe we forced them out by being so much more advanced.