Archaeogenetics: Neanderthals And Bottleneck Theory

Late Neanderthals are believed to have descended from a small group that survived extreme Ice Age conditions in southwestern France. In collaboration with an international team, researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have confirmed the "bottleneck theory" and dated it more precisely in a new study: Their findings suggest that both the geographic distribution and the…

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