Not by demography alone: Neanderthal extinction and null hypotheses in paleoanthropological explanation
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Abstract Neanderthal extinction is a matter of intense debate. It has been suggested that demography (as opposed to environment or competition) could alone provide sufficient explanation for the phenomenon. We argue cannot be ‘stand-alone’ ‘alternative’ token extinctions as demographic features are entangled with competitive and environmental factors, further because should not conflated neutrality.
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology and Philosophy
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1572-8404', '0169-3867']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-022-09881-y