article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals are thought to have numbered up to 70,000 at Neanderthals peak and lived in hunter gatherer societies .
article_snippet.sent: Writing in the Journal of Human Evolution, the research team said: 'Even though a number of Neanderthal traits can be seen—particularly in the face and
article_snippet.sent: Overall, our results concur in indicating that our results belongs to Homo neanderthalensis, with some phenetic peculiarities that appear consistent with a chronology ranging from 172 ±
article_snippet.sent: It has been around 30,000 years since the ancestors of modern-day humans are thought to have wiped out the ancient Neanderthals.
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals and modern humans are thought to have co-existed for thousands of years and interbred, meaning Europeans now have roughly two per cent Neanderthal DNA.
article_snippet.sent: Scientists have found that part of our HLA system, which helps white blood cells to identify and destroy foreign material in the body, could have come from Neanderthals.
article_snippet.sent: Other researchers have suggested that humans outside Africa are more vulnerable to Type 2 Diabetes because humans outside Africa interbred with Neanderthals.
article_snippet.sent: Recent research has shown that Neanderthals suffered from a wide range of diseases that still plague us today - and this may be what killed Neanderthals off.
article_snippet.sent: Neanderthals have found evidence that suggests our prehistoric cousins would have been infected by diseases such as tuberculosis, typhoid, whooping cough, encephalitis and the common cold.
article_snippet.sent: But anthropologists from Cambridge University and Oxford Brookes University say that new diseases carried by modern humans may have led to the downfall of Neanderthals.