European Neandertals were replaced by modern human populations from Africa ∼40,000 years ago. Archaeological evidence from the best-documented region of Europe shows that during this replacement human populations increased by one order of magnitude, suggesting that numerical supremacy alone may have been a critical factor in facilitating this replacement.
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Mellars, P., & French, J. C. (2011). Tenfold population increase in Western Europe at the Neandertal-to-modern human transition. Science, 333(6042), 623–627. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1206930
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