War in the time of Neanderthals: how our species battled for supremacy for over 100,000 years0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 4, 2020
Around 600,000 years ago, humanity split in two. One group stayed in Africa, evolving into us. The other struck out overland, into Asia, then Europe, becoming Homo neanderthalensis – the Neanderthals. They weren’t our ancestors, but a sister species, evolving in parallel.