A new mathematical model suggests that Neanderthals didn't go extinct due to inferiority, but rather were absorbed through interbreeding with migrating Homo sapiens populations, leading to their genetic dilution over time.
Nobel Prize winner Svante Pääbo discusses his work in paleogenetics, including sequencing the Neanderthal genome, discovering the Denisovans, and his theories on why Homo sapiens survived while Neanderthals went extinct, attributing it to our larger population size.
