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Letter: Lonely hearts

Published 16 March 2011

From Katka Kessler

I was pondering why the Neanderthals might have died out. Close inspection of New Scientist‘s illustrations past and present suggests the cause was a singular lack of females.

Letchworth, Hertfordshire, UK

Issue no. 2804 published 19 March 2011

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