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1.) Copy the article below. Hightlight all the article text and paste it to your article page. 2.) Copy the vocabulary chart below the artlicle and place that in a similar location on your page. 3.) Read the text completely through once to gain an overall understanding of the article. 4.) The second time you read, you will investigated a little closer. As you read the article through this time you will need to complete the following: //***Copy and paste article to your neanderthal article area***// ==**European Neanderthals Were On the Verge of Extinction Even Before the Arrival of Modern Humans**== ScienceDaily (Feb. 25, 2012) — New findings from an international team of researchers show that most Neanderthals in Europe died off around 50,000 years ago. The previously held view of a Europe populated by a stable Neanderthal population for hundreds of thousands of years up until modern humans arrived must therefore be revised.
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This new perspective on the Neanderthals comes from a study of ancient DNA published February 25 in //Molecular Biology and Evolution//.

The results indicate that most Neanderthals in Europe died off as early as 50,000 years ago. After that, a small group of Neanderthals recolonised central and western Europe, where they survived for another 10,000 years before modern humans entered the picture. The study is the result of an international project led by Swedish and Spanish researchers in Uppsala, Stockholm and Madrid. “The fact that Neanderthals in Europe were nearly extinct, but then recovered, and that all this took place long before they came into contact with modern humans came as a complete surprise to us. This indicates that the Neanderthals may have been more sensitive to the dramatic climate changes that took place in the last Ice Age than was previously thought”, says Love Dalén, associate professor at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. In connection with work on DNA from Neanderthal fossils in Northern Spain, the researchers noted that the genetic variation among European Neanderthals was extremely limited during the last ten thousand years before the Neanderthals disappeared.
 * Summary: Nearly 60,00 years ago neanderthals where the living sources in central and western Europe before humans. **

Older European Neanderthal fossils, as well as fossils from Asia, had much greater genetic variation, on par with the amount of variation that might be expected from a species that had been abundant in an area for a long period of time. “The amount of genetic variation in geologically older Neanderthals as well as in Asian Neanderthals was just as great as in modern humans as a species, whereas the variation among later European Neanderthals was not even as high as that of modern humans in Iceland ”, says Anders Götherström, associate professor at Uppsala University.
 * Summary: The Neanderthals where thought to be extremly sensitive to the climate change like during the ice ageand that was what scientists thought killed them off. **
 * Summary: The Neanderthals in Asia and Europe had genetics that where eerily similar to the modern humans of Iceland and they veryed from species. Your sentence is poorly executed. **

The results presented in the study are based entirely on severely degraded DNA, and the analyses have therefore required both advanced laboratory and computational methods. The research team has involved experts from a number of countries, including statisticians, experts on modern DNA sequencing and paleoanthropologists from Denmark, Spain and the US. Only when all members of the international research team had reviewed the findings could they feel certain that the available genetic data actually reveals an important and previously unknown part of Neanderthal history. “This type of interdisciplinary study is extremely valuable in advancing research about our evolutionary history. DNA from prehistoric people has led to a number of unexpected findings in recent years, and it will be really exciting to see what further discoveries are made in the coming years ”, says Juan Luis Arsuaga, professor of human paleontology at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid.
 * Summary: It is hard to find and analize DNA from the prehistoric life because it is so scarce and hard to analize . It takes many countrys to connect their tochnology and knoledge to analize prehistoric DNA and it also takes very advanced technoledgy. **

=**Post Article Questions: //Use Complete Sentences//**= = = =**Vocabulary**=
 * 1. What limited the neanderthals ability ot adapt to its environment? The neanderthals where extreemly sencitive to the rapid climate change as stated in perograph 2. (lacked variation within their gene pool.) **
 * 2. Based upon your notes and what Mr. Schraufstetter has taught you, What might have caused Neanderthals to go extinct? I think the neanderthals went extinct do to the climate changing and them not being able to compete with the other human like primates on earth. (good) **
 * 3. From what you learned, What might have caused the Neanderthals to recover from near extinction within their population? I think the neanderthals migrated and found more food and better hunting ground then where they previously where. **
 * 4. What advantage did older neanderthals in asia and europe have over the most recnet neanderthals? There DNA was more compatable to the earth than the older Neanderthals giving them an advantage. **
 * 5. What clue about eolution helped scientists detremine these findings? The remains of neanderthals where found all over europe and that ment the evolution of neanderthals let them be able travle long distances .((((((DNA))))????? **
 * **Word** || **Definition** || **Picture** || **Sentence** ||
 * Heat || The transfer of warmer matter to cooler matter. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * genetic variation || the variation of genetics in a species. ||  || ??????? ||
 * recolonised || to move to a new area. ||  || ??????? ||
 * geologically || the order things happen in. ||  || ??????? ||
 * interdisciplinary || a type of extreemly advanced study of the history ||  || ??????? ||
 * recolonised || to move to a new area. ||  || ??????? ||
 * geologically || the order things happen in. ||  || ??????? ||
 * interdisciplinary || a type of extreemly advanced study of the history ||  || ??????? ||
 * geologically || the order things happen in. ||  || ??????? ||
 * interdisciplinary || a type of extreemly advanced study of the history ||  || ??????? ||
 * interdisciplinary || a type of extreemly advanced study of the history ||  || ??????? ||


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 * **Summary** || Described || Described with errors || Described accurately with few errors || 3 ||
 * **Main Idea** || Highlighted || Highlighted correctly sometimes || Highlighted correctly with few errors || 3 ||
 * **Vocabulary** || 1 term || 2 terms with chart || 2 terms + with chart, sentence and definitions || 2 ||
 * **Total Points** ||  ||   ||   || 10/12 ||


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