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Re:Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before ... by rightbyte on Sunday September 22, 2024 @02:20PM (#41618865)
"Fairly close", as in, "somewhere else in France, which in the year of 45000 BC, is mainly forest"?

If I read the map correctly.

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Re:Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before ... by usrnm on Sunday September 22, 2024 @04:16PM (#41619701)
Our ancestors and Neanderthal ancestors for that matter came there all the way from Africa. It was definitely doable at the time
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Re:Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before ... by kuhewa on Sunday September 22, 2024 @04:27PM (#41619787)
Yes several weeks. But no contact is a little surprising for fifty generations, let alone fifty thousand years.
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Re:Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before ... by rightbyte on Sunday September 22, 2024 @05:19PM (#41620171)
Hmm .. ye thinking about it, it is kinda strange. Dunno how long you need to roam around until you see some other tribe by chance. But certainly not thousands of years?
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