Genetic deterioration may not have been the major cause of Neanderthal extinction, new evidence suggests. In fact, new genetic analysis shows that some of the last Neanderthals to have lived before the extinction of their lineage were not particularly inbred. This flies in the face of prevailing theories that suggest genetic deterioration from inbreeding is the main reason our closest relatives disappeared roughly 40,000 years ago . Evolutionary anthropologist Alba Bossoms Mesa and team have re-

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