Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria

@article{Hublin2020InitialUP,
  title={Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria},
  author={Jean-Jacques Hublin and Nikolay V. Sirakov and Vera Aldeias and Shara E. Bailey and Edouard Bard and Vincent Delvigne and Elena Endarova and Y Fagault and Helen Fewlass and Mateja Hajdinjak and Bernd Kromer and I. Krumov and Jo{\~a}o Marreiros and Naomi L. Martisius and Lindsey Paskulin and Virginie Sinet-Mathiot and Matthias Meyer and Svante P{\"a}{\"a}bo and Vasil V. Popov and Željko Re{\vz}ek and Svoboda Sirakova and Matthew M. Skinner and Geoff M. Smith and Rosen Spasov and Sahra Talamo and Thibaut Tuna and Lukas Wacker and Frido Welker and Arndt Wilcke and Nikolay Zahariev and Shannon P. McPherron and Tsenka Tsanova},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2020},
  volume={581},
  pages={299 - 302}
}
The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe witnessed the replacement and partial absorption of local Neanderthal populations by Homo sapiens populations of African origin1. However, this process probably varied across regions and its details remain largely unknown. In particular, the duration of chronological overlap between the two groups is much debated, as are the implications of this overlap for the nature of the biological and cultural interactions between Neanderthals and H… 
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