New evidence has emerged that Neanderthals co-existed with anatomically modern humans for at least 1,000 years in central France.

The finding suggests Neanderthals came to a tragic and lingering end.

Few chapters in the rise of Homo sapiens, as modern mankind is known, have triggered as much debate as the fate of the Neanderthals.

Smaller and squatter than Homo sapiens but with larger brains, Neanderthals lived in Europe, parts of central Asia and the Middle East for about 170,000 years.

But vestiges of the Neanderthals stop about 28,000 to 30,000 years ago.

At that point, Homo sapiens, a smart, ascendant sub-species of humans originating in eastern Africa, became the undisputed masters of the planet.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...9/s1450949.htm
Modern humans, Neanderthals shared earth for 1,000 years. 01/09/2005. ABC News Online

Even though the article doesn't actually say it...I've been saying for 20 years that man evolved ( like every creature ) as a distinct species...Darwinism is a crock...yes, we evolved, but the same as we evolve now, a distinct species...' lucy ' and the other so-called skulls and bones used to address the theory we evolved ( the chart you see on school walls ) actually belonged to a ' different ' race of humanoid that is now extinct...survival of the fittest...just as there are several species of other animals...there were other species of humans...which were never our ancestors.

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