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Humans and Neanderthals Lived Side by Side in Northern Europe 45,000 Years Ago, Study Finds | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

“These groups are exploring,” says John Hawks, a University of Wisconsin–Madison anthropologist who was not involved in the study, to NBC News. “They’re going to new places. They live there for a while. They have lifestyles that are different. They’re comfortable moving into areas where there were Neanderthals.”