Hacker News with Generative AI: Neanderthals

Neanderthals' social isolation may have sped up their extinction (popsci.com)
Using DNA extracted from some roughly 45,000-year-old bones, scientists have found a new Neanderthal lineage that likely did not have a lot of interaction with others from its species.
Neanderthals and humans interbred 47k years ago for 7k years, research suggests (livescience.com)
Patterns of Neanderthal cut marks, bone breakage in cooked vs. uncooked birds (arstechnica.com)
Neanderthals did not go extinct, we assimilated them (elpais.com)
Neanderthal fire pits offer an extraordinarily precise snapshot of ancient life (nature.com)
How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile? (johnhawks.net)