Quote:and did not have very close contacts with dwellers of cold climate such as neanderthals
The range of HNS
![[Image: Range_of_Homo_neanderthalensis.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=upload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F2%2F25%2FRange_of_Homo_neanderthalensis.png)
is not strictly limited to cold climates, though. Frankly, they seem to demonstrate a wide range of adaptability and did so for 400,000 years during which the ice sheets advanced and retreated a couple of times.