Modern humans eventually took over Europe after several failed attempts to settle in the continent, according to scientists, but doubts remain over what caused their eventual success.
A group of researchers made the discovery while they were studying the disappearance of Home sapiens from Africa tens of thousands of years ago.
Remains of our ancestors dating back 40,000 to 50,000 years have been found in Bulgaria, Romania and the Czech Republic recently.
But analysis of these bones produced genetic profiles that do not match those of modern Europeans.
Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural…