Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK.
Science. 2011 Jul 29;333(6042):623-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1206930.
European Neandertals were replaced by modern human populations from Africa ~40,000 years ago. Archaeological evidence from the best-documented region of Europe shows that during this replacement human populations increased by one order of magnitude, suggesting that numerical supremacy alone may have been a critical factor in facilitating this replacement.
约 4 万年前，来自非洲的现代人类种群取代了欧洲的尼安德特人。来自欧洲记录最详实的地区的考古证据表明，在这一更替过程中，人类种群的数量增加了一个数量级，这表明仅凭借数量上的优势就可能是促成这一更替的关键因素。
