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Neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusion
dc.contributor.author | Banks, William E. | |
dc.contributor.author | D'Errico, Francesco | |
dc.contributor.author | Peterson, A. Townsend | |
dc.contributor.author | Kageyama, Masa | |
dc.contributor.author | Sima, Adriana | |
dc.contributor.author | Sanchez-Goni, Maria-Fernanda | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-09-29T21:57:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-09-29T21:57:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-12-24 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Banks WE, d'Errico F, Peterson AT, Kageyama M, Sima A, et al. (2008) Neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusion. PLoS ONE 3(12): e3972. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003972 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5486 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background Despite a long history of investigation, considerable debate revolves around whether Neanderthals became extinct because of climate change or competition with anatomically modern humans (AMH).Methodology/Principal Findings We apply a new methodology integrating archaeological and chronological data with high-resolution paleoclimatic simulations to define eco-cultural niches associated with Neanderthal and AMH adaptive systems during alternating cold and mild phases of Marine Isotope Stage 3. Our results indicate that Neanderthals and AMH exploited similar niches, and may have continued to do so in the absence of contact.Conclusions/Significance The southerly contraction of Neanderthal range in southwestern Europe during Greenland Interstadial 8 was not due to climate change or a change in adaptation, but rather concurrent AMH geographic expansion appears to have produced competition that led to Neanderthal extinction. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research was funded by the National Science Foundation International Research Fellowship Program (grant no. 0653000), and the EuroClimate and OMLL programs of the European Science Foundation. The climate simulations were produced in the framework of the ANR-BLANC IDEGLACE project (ANR-05-BLAN-0310-01) and the CNRS/ECLIPSE project EOLE. | |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | |
dc.subject | Ecological niche modeling | |
dc.subject | Neanderthal | |
dc.subject | Extinction | |
dc.title | Neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusion | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0003972 | |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1835-6315 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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