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Last of the Neanderthals
Eurasia was theirs alone for 200,000 years. Then the newcomers arrived.

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Photograph by Jochem Wijnands
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Homo sapiens: the first hominin fossil ever identified as such. The skullcap, with its telltale projecting brow, is held along with the rest of the Feldhofer bones by the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn, Germany.]]>
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Photograph by David Liittschwager, photographed at the Natural History Museum, London
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Photograph by David Liittschwager, with permission of the Government of Principado de Asturias
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Photograph by David Liittschwager, with permission of 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, Branford, CT, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI), Leipzig, Germany
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Photograph by David Liittschwager, photographed at the Natural History Museum, London
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Photograph by David Liittschwager, photographed at the Natural History Museum, London
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Photograph by David Liittschwager, photographed at Group of Paleoanthropology, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid
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Photograph by David Liittschwager, with permission of the Museum for Pre- and Early History, State Museum of Berlin (SMB) and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Photograph by David Liittschwager, photographed at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility with the permission of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Photograph by David Liittschwager
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