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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4851972" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>How would you describe them?  Walked upright.  Had larger brains than modern man.  Had weapons, tools.  Created art.  Used fire.  And their DNA has been found mixed with ours.  Very little with people of sub-Saharan Africa but as much as 7% in some Asians and up to 4% in Europeans so we know there was some mixing as different groups met.  I mentioned we know there was a super volcano eruption event in what is now Indonesia about 70,000 years ago.  It's believed by some that mankind was more diverse before then but it caused humanity to almost go extinct.  The Neaderthals are believed to have died out about 40,000 years ago.  Their physiology was particularly suited for the Ice Age of their time.  Modern man is believed to have come out of the South as the Ice Age was ending.</p></blockquote><p></p>