article_snippet.sent: Modern humans have been blamed for killing off the Neanderthals by out competing the Neanderthals, breeding with the Neanderthals and even outright murdering the Neanderthals.
article_snippet.sent: Scientists studying the latest genetic, fossil and archaeological evidence claim that Neanderthals suffered from a wide range of diseases that still plague us today.
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: Another recent genetic study by scientists at the University at Buffalo has suggested that Neanderthals may have suffered from psoriasis and Crohn's disease, a condition that affects the digestive system.
article_snippet.sent: We know that Neanderthals were actually much more advanced than Neanderthals have been given credit for and we even interbred with Neanderthals. '
article_snippet.sent: The findings add to a growing body of evidence that Neanderthals were not as different from modern humans as was originally thought.
article_snippet.sent: Recent discoveries have suggested that rather than being brutish cavemen, Neanderthals had sophisticated culture, were master tool makers and may even have had Neanderthals own language.
article_snippet.sent: Another recent genetic study by scientists at the University at Buffalo suggests that Neanderthals also suffered from many of the same afflictions and complaints that modern humans experience.
article_snippet.sent: Most evidence from the fossil record suggest that Neanderthals tended to suffer traumatic injuries as a result of Neanderthals hunter gatherer lifestyle, but there are also signs of inflammation and infection.
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: Genetic sequencing of Neanderthal and Denisovan - another early human ancestor - DNA has shown that modern humans have inherited a number of genes from these extinct species.
article_snippet.sent: The fossilised remains of Neanderthals, like the skull above, are revealing more details about Neanderthals lifestyles .
highlights_snippet.sent: Anthropologists claim that Neanderthals suffered many modern diseases .
  