Thigh Bone Suggests Ancient and Modern Humans Overlapped

[rhizome]

Was there previously a theory that there was a gap in time after ancient humans, whereafter modern humans just popped up one epoch?

[yadongwen]

So it's possible that we killed them?

[scarmig]

"Next, the researchers would like to extract DNA from bones found in the cave. But because the thigh bone shows signs of having been burned, ancient human DNA may not have survived."

Killed them deliciously, possibly.

[PhasmaFelis]

I think it's generally accepted that the Neanderthals went extinct because we out-competed them, at the very least. We're an astonishingly bloodthirsty batch of apes.