Article from the Guardian

The new that I selected it's about Neanderthals. The article explains how, unlike the common thought, the Neanderthals didn't live in the same period of time that the Homo sapiens.

The scientifics used to think that the Neanderthal and the Homo sapiens lived together in Eurasia, but a new finding in fossil bones of two sites in Spain, affirm that the first one is much older than they thought. 

They used to think that the Neanderthal disappear around 30,000 years ago and lived in the Spanish peninsula. The scientifics supposed that they mix their DNA with Homo Sapiens, and with that, explained why the modern human (especially european people) have traces of Neanderthal DNA.

But, a new research, using an improved dating method, reported that the Neanderthal lived in Spain until 45,000 or 50,000 years ago approx.

This problem around if the Neanderthal and the Homo sapiens share time and space has divided experts. With this new information some believe that the reason of the genetic link between this two subspecies is that they have a common ancestor that travel to Eurasia from Africa, but in differents periods.

Personally, I think this is very important to know how we are who we are, how we get here.

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