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Since 1856, when their first remains were found in German mine Neanderthal, the scientists have been trying to find out why they actually became extinct. Some attribute their extinction to chronic diseases, emphasizing how Neanderthal bones show signs of arthritis and other diseases. There are also scientists that claim the Neanderthals were the victims of genocide, i. e. that modern people were systematically destroying them because they considered them as enemies. As we know, modern people came from Africa 36 000 years ago, and Neanderthals became extinct 30 000 years ago, which means that these two forms of people shared mutual territory for a few thousand years.

Recently published analysis of Neanderthal DNA, on the other hand, points to the fact that the Neanderthal and the Homo Sapiens did not mix, at least not significantly. In recently published scientific works a hypothesis has been put forward saying that modern people took the place of Neanderthals because they had a more efficient economic system in which there was a division of work, where men were hunters, and women and children were fruit collectors. As opposed to that, all Neanderthals, men and women and children, were hunters.