Katerina Harvati
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Katerina Harvati Harvati
 Katerina Harvati, a paleontologist at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, said these advances can potentially lead to a breakthrough in our understanding of this critical time period in European prehistory. Dr. Harvati agreed that the new chronology suggested an earlier appearance of early modern human complex behaviors and an earlier Neanderthal extinction and also suggests a shorter coexistence interval of the two species.