Over tens of thousands of years, waves of Homo sapiens set out across Europe and Asia, only for their societies and cultures to mysteriously vanish.
We are now realising that stories like this are surprisingly common in prehistory. While it can be tempting to think of human evolution as a tale of progress and success, ultimately leading to a global population, the reality is that many lineages of our species died out and left no descendants. At last, ancient DNA is revealing why.
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