Did you know that Neanderthals did not go extinct as previously thought? In a recent study, scientists found traces of Neanderthal DNA in modern-day people. This news has many people reconsidering the extinction of Neanderthals. This discovery has sparked a lot of debate, and scientists are still working to determine if Neanderthals were a threat to Homo sapiens or if they were just another species in the world. However, this new information is sure to change the way we think about Neanderthals and the evolution of humans!

Around 600,000 years ago, Europe was invaded by large-brained hominins using Acheulean stone tools. They were probably African immigrants, because similar fossils and tools occur earlier in Africa. They have been called archaic Homo sapiens, Homo heidelbergensis, and early Neanderthals, yet they remain mysterious. They may have been ancestors of Neanderthals and modern humans, or ancestors of Neanderthals only, or an evolutionary dead end.