Neanderthals may or may not have been a branch from which homo sapiens are descended. It is almost certain they were contemporaries with cro-magnons.
However there were several predecessors to Neanderthals.
Australopithecines appeared on Earth before Homo habilis, Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens.
Neanderthals first appeared around 400,000 years ago and went extinct about 40,000 years ago, so they lived on Earth for approximately 360,000 years.
Neanderthals descended from Homo heidelbergensis.
Neanderthals first appeared around 400,000 years ago and went extinct around 40,000 years ago. They coexisted and interacted with early modern humans for a significant period of time before eventually dying out.
For hundreds of thousands of years. They died out about 27,000 years ago.
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Australopithecines appeared on Earth before Homo habilis, Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens.
They started evolving about 600,000 years ago. They were fully developed as Neanderthals 130,000 years ago.
Neanderthals
Neanderthals first appeared around 400,000 years ago and went extinct about 40,000 years ago, so they lived on Earth for approximately 360,000 years.
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Fully evolved Neanderthals appeared 130,000 years ago.
Neanderthals descended from Homo heidelbergensis.
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