Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion

William E. Banks; Francesco d'Errico; A. Townsend Peterson; Masa Kageyama; Adriana Sima; Maria-Fernanda Sánchez-Goñi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003972

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Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion

William E. Banks ,

* E-mail: w.banks@ipgq.u-bordeaux1.fr

Affiliation Institut de Préhistoire et de Géologie du Quaternaire, UMR 5199-PACEA, Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, Talence, France
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Francesco d'Errico,

Affiliations Institut de Préhistoire et de Géologie du Quaternaire, UMR 5199-PACEA, Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, Talence, France, Institute for Human Evolution, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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A. Townsend Peterson,

Affiliation Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
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Masa Kageyama,

Affiliation Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement/IPSL, UMR 1572, CEA/CNRS/UVSQ, CE Saclay, L'Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Adriana Sima,

Affiliation Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement/IPSL, UMR 1572, CEA/CNRS/UVSQ, CE Saclay, L'Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Maria-Fernanda Sánchez-Goñi

Affiliation EPHE, UMR5805-EPOC, Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, Talence, France
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Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion

William E. Banks,
Francesco d'Errico,
A. Townsend Peterson,
Masa Kageyama,
Adriana Sima,
Maria-Fernanda Sánchez-Goñi

Published: December 24, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003972

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Competition vs. Climate Forcing

Posted by dianagainer54 on 31 Dec 2008 at 12:11 GMT

This article is a tremendous step forward. It always made much more sense for a species that survived a previous glaciation with simpler technology to have gone extinct due to competition rather than due to climate alone. But here at last is the evidence.

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