"...helped facilitate the demographic and territorial expansion of modern humans relative to culturally more conservative and demographically more isolated Neanderthal populations."
Ah yes, those socially conservative neanderthals.
BTW, the article somehow misses the most interesting question -- which is, which musical tones do the flutes make? I wonder if they correspond with the diatonic or pentatonic tones of modern music.
I wonder if they correspond with the diatonic or pentatonic tones of modern music Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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