title: Tenfold population increase in Western Europe at the Neandertal-to-modern human transition.
abstract: European Neandertals were replaced by modern human populations from Africa ~40,000 years ago. Archaeological evidence from the best-documented region of Europe shows that during this replacement human populations increased by one order of magnitude, suggesting that numerical supremacy alone may have been a critical factor in facilitating this replacement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK. pam59@cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mellars
authors.forename: Jennifer C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: French
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001106:Archaeology; D005580:Fossils; D005602:France; D015186:Hominidae; D006801:Humans; D011156:Population Density; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011158:Population Growth; D013995:Time; D053001:Tool Use Behavior