[cyberpsybin]

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[fsloth]

Nobody knows why neanderthals died. There was considerable amount of crossbreeding - modern europeans may carry genes inherited from neanderthals - so it's far from obvious what exactly happened.

[d0mine]

The same can be said about native Americans but we know better.

[fsloth]

What makes you think pre-agricultural stone-age Homo Sapiens with a sparse population would have been in any position to eradicate Neanderthals to extinction?

[Mikeb85]

Considering modern Europeans all have Neanderthal genes, they could have simply just been bred out of existence.

[q1w2]

I imagine all human migrations resulted in genocide - everywhere they happened. This isn't Europe specific.

...it's not even human specific as other animals do the same thing.