Disappearance of Neandertal man due to language</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Disappearance of Neandertal man due to language"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Disappearance,of,Neandertal,man,due,to,language"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">26-11-2004</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Disappearance of Neandertal man due to language</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Cambridge, England: A new study, to be published in the journal “Nature”, suggests that one of the reasons why Neandertal man disappeared was because Homo Sapiens used more sophisticated language. <br> <br>The study's author, Paul Mellars, professor of prehistory and human evolution at Cambridge University in England, bases his theory on existing evidence: carbon dating of the bones of both species indicates that Neandertal man disappeared at the same time that Homo Sapiens arrived on the continent, but the latter had a much more sophosticated culture (as tesified by the artefacts they left), which can only have come about with more sophisticated language. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1124_041124_neanderthals_language.html" target="blank">news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1124_041124_neanderthals_language.html</a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show