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Published online 12 September 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070910-7
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Neanderthals 'not killed by climate change'
Study suggests demise did not coincide with climate cooling.
Whatever it was that sealed the fate of the Neanderthals, it looks unlikely to have been climate change. That is the verdict of a new study that used climate records from Venezuela to deduce what happened at the Neanderthals' last stand at the southern tip of Europe.
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