Generations of scientists have debated whether the Neandertals were ancestral to modern Europeans. The current prevailing view, which denies that ancestry, proposes that
A. Neandertals migrated eastward through Siberia and into the Americas until they died out.
B. modern humans evolved in Africa and eventually colonized Europe, displacing the Neandertals there.
C. Neandertals died out because they retained too many australopith characteristics that were poorly adapted to northern latitudes.
D. H. erectus split into separate groups, one ancestral to the Neandertals, the other ancestral to anatomically modern humans, who first reached Europe around 100,000 B.P.-long before Neandertals.
E. H. erectus killed off the Neandertals even prior to the emergence of anatomically modern humans.
Answer: B
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