Neanderthal man was replaced by which of the following man in Europe?
A
Cro-Magnon man
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B
Homo sapiens
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C
Rhesus monkey
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D
New world monkey
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Solution
The correct option is A Cro-Magnon man Neanderthals apparently coexisted with anatomically modern humans beginning some 100,000 years ago. However, about 45,000 years ago, at about the time that stoneworking techniques similar to those of Cro-Magnon people appeared in Europe, Neanderthals began to be displaced. The Cro-Magnons shared the European landscape with Neanderthals for some 10,000 years or more, before the latter disappeared from the fossil record. The nature of their co-existence and the extinction of Neanderthals has been debated. Suggestions include peaceful co-existence, competition, interbreeding, assimilation and genocide.