It turns out it wasn’t climate, interbreeding or disease which laid waste to the Neanderthals – it was free trade. The WTO have denied any knowledge.
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Modern humans may have driven Neanderthals to extinction 30,000 years ago because Homo sapiens unlocked the secrets of free trade, say a group of US and Dutch economists. The theory could shed new light on the mysterious and sudden demise of the Neanderthals after over 260,000 years of healthy survival.
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