Cro-Magnon

thumb|Skull of Cro-Magnon 1 Cro-Magnons or European early modern humans (EEMH) were the first early modern humans (Homo sapiens) to settle in Europe and Siberia, migrating from Western Asia, continuously occupying the continent possibly from as early as 56,800 years ago. They interacted and interbred with the indigenous Neanderthals (H. neanderthalensis) of Europe and Western Asia, who went extinct 35,000 to 40,000 years ago. Ancient DNA research indicates that the earliest modern humans in Europe during the Initial Upper Paleolithic (~45–40 kya) were part of the broader early expansion of Ho

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Cro-Magnons were the first modern humans (Homo sapiens) to settle in Europe and Siberia, arriving from Western Asia possibly as early as 56,800 years ago and interbreeding with the native Neanderthals before those populations disappeared. They matter because studying them helps us understand how modern humans first populated Europe and how our species interacted with other human groups during prehistoric times.

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