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    For much of the early 20th century, Neanderthal behaviour was depicted as primitive, unintelligent, and brutish; unevolved compared to their modern human...
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    Neanderthal extinction Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Hypotheses on the causes of the extinction include violence, transmission...
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    The interbreeding happened in several independent events that included Neanderthals and Denisovans, as well as several unidentified hominins. In Europe,...
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    Neanderthal anatomy is characterised by a long, flat skull and a stocky body plan. When first discovered, Neanderthals were thought to be anatomically...
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    Neanderthals (/niˈændərˌtɑːl, neɪ-, -ˌθɑːl/ nee-AN-də(r)-TAHL, nay-, -⁠THAHL; Homo neanderthalensis or sometimes H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct...
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    relative to Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other archaic humans. Debate continues as to whether anatomically modern humans were behaviorally modern as well...
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  • Neanderthal genetics testing became possible in the 1990s with advances in ancient DNA analysis. In 2008, the Neanderthal genome project published the...
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    of a Neanderthal musical instrument, and such a find from the Middle Paleolithic (Mousterian) might indicate previously unknown symbolic behavior among...
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  • to replace other Homo species such as the Neanderthals and Homo erectus. The earliest evidence of behavioral modernity first appears during the Middle...
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    modern humans (AMH) and Neanderthal specimens, many relating to the superior Neanderthal adaptation to cold environments. Neanderthal surface to volume ratio...
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    close affinities with Neanderthals. The cave was also periodically inhabited by Neanderthals, but it is unclear whether Neanderthals and Denisovans ever...
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    coincides with the disappearance of archaic humans such as the Neanderthals. The term "behavioral modernity" is somewhat disputed. It is most often used for...
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    Grotte du Renne (category Neanderthal sites)
    this has not been substantiated. Because Neanderthal remains coexist with artifacts showing complex behavior, such as personal ornaments, it has been...
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    Feldhofer 1 or Neanderthal 1 is the scientific name of the 40,000-year-old type specimen fossil of the species Homo neanderthalensis. The fossil was discovered...
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    humans. Microwear analysis of the Mousterian stone tools used by the Neanderthals show that many were used to work wood. The development of civilization...
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    of straight-tusked elephants 125.000 years ago: Implications for Neanderthal behavior". Science Advances. 9 (5): eadd8186. Bibcode:2023SciA....9D8186G...
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  • prehistorical skeleton found in Portugal, believed to be a hybrid that had a Neanderthal parent and an anatomically modern human parent. In 1998, this discovery...
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    La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 (category Neanderthal fossils)
    La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 ("The Old Man") is an almost-complete male Neanderthal skeleton discovered in La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France by A. and J. Bouyssonie...
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    president René Fasel has protested against fighting, deeming it "Neanderthal behavior". Wayne Gretzky, considered by many to be the greatest hockey player...
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    of straight-tusked elephants 125.000 years ago: Implications for Neanderthal behavior". Science Advances. 9 (5): eadd8186. Bibcode:2023SciA....9D8186G...
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    Ripoll, M. P.; Carrión, Y. M.; Duarte, E. & de la Rasilla, M. (2019). "Neanderthal and carnivore activities at Llonin Cave, Asturias, northern Iberian Peninsula:...
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    patrilocal residence when used by the Anthropology) has also been found among Neanderthal remains in Spain and in remains of Australopithecus and Paranthropus...
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    C (2014). "Symbolic or utilitarian? Juggling interpretations of Neanderthal behavior: new inferences from the study of engraved stone surfaces". J Anthropol...
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    Strategies in Level J of Abric Romaní", High Resolution Archaeology and Neanderthal Behavior, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 313–372, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-3922-2_8...
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    Southwest Asian Neanderthals were Neanderthals who lived in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, and Iran - the southernmost expanse of the...
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    of straight-tusked elephants 125.000 years ago: Implications for Neanderthal behavior". Science Advances. 9 (5): eadd8186. Bibcode:2023SciA....9D8186G...
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  • The Neanderthal Man is a 78-minute, 1953 American black-and-white science fiction film produced independently by Aubrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen, as...
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    Cave of Maltravieso (category Neanderthal sites)
    humans, with important implications for Neanderthal behavior. This dating, and the possibility of Neanderthal cave art, is disputed on the physical-chemical...
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    spectrum disorders (ASDs) and Neanderthal DNA was identified in 2009, pending genome sequencing. The first Neanderthal genome sequence was published in...
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    Shanidar Cave (category Neanderthal sites)
    Mountains in the Erbil Governorate of Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq. Neanderthal remains were discovered here in 1953, including Shanidar 1, who survived...
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