Neanderthals may have been wiped out by EAR INFECTIONS: Scientists say complications of the common childhood illness could have triggered mystery extinction

Ear infections likely killed off the Neanderthals, according to scientists who claim to have cracked the mystery surrounding the species’ extinction. While antibiotics are taken for granted in the modern world, a lack of sophisticated medicine 40,000 years ago is believed to have seen the archaic species suffer from the common childhood illness and then perish. Moreover, Neanderthals were more prone to contracting an ear infection as they had smaller ears, providing a tighter space for bacteria to become clogged up. This is believed to have led to breathing and hearing problems and pneumonia. Neanderthals were more prone to contracting an ear infection as they had smaller ears, providing a tighter space for bacteria to become clogged up Ear infections likely killed off the Neanderthals, according to scientists who claim to have cracked the centuries-old mystery of the species’s extinction The findings, published in the Anatomical Record Journal, came from New York-based scientists. Professor Samuel Márquez of the Downstate Health Sciences University, said: ‘It may sound far-fetched, but when we, for the first time, reconstructed the Eustachian tubes of Neanderthals, we discovered that they are remarkably similar to those of human infants. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next How humans could survive… Read full this story

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