Climate change may have driven Homo sapiens to extinction in Europe before we were helped by Neanderthals. The Nature article provides more details.

I often wonder if the right species survived. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024/december/neanderthals-homo-sapiens-interbred-within-past-50000-years.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08420-x