Around 100,000 years ago, the climate worsened abruptly and the environment of Central-Eastern Europe shifted from forested to open steppe/taiga habitat, promoting the dispersal of wooly mammoth, wooly rhino and other cold adapted species from the Arctic. Aerial view of Stajnia Cave [Credit: Marcin Zarski]Neanderthals living in these territories suffered severe demographic contractions due to the new ecological conditions and only...

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