Amadeus wrote:

>Maybe the neanderthal possible living space shrinked too small... to zero.
>Lost between rabbit starvation and glaciation in south Spain.
>
>This kind of explanation works only of the population doesn't switch to
>different caloric sources of wormer climates, especially nuts which are very
>fatty and nutritious. It's possible that eather neanderthals genetically
>weren't able to digest plant food properly.
>And/or that the nut trees didn't survive at or migrate to the southern
>european dead-ends like Spain and Italy.
>We've just to look at pollen data of 30kya of south Spain.
>
>Btw. inuit don't have this problem, because they can rely on biomass of
>marine origin (whales, seals, fish). Seal is called the live-bringer.
>
>I hope you could enjoy my attempt of a theory to explain the neanderthal
>extinction.

Another theory is at
http://WilliamCalvin.com/1990s/1998AtlanticClimate.htm.

Unfortunately, we may get to test this on Homo Sapiens...

Mike