Word: neanderthallic
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Place newly purchased hat on head. Note the high, sloping forehead, the flattened brow/brim. You look like a Neanderthal. Using scissors, remove the fibrous underbelly found inside the front of the cap. Congratu- lations... you've entered the Tool Age.
When strangers threw rocks through the windows of the Gill home and nearly injured their children, Elizabeth Gill was not sure if the protests were directed at her advocacy of increased diversity in Cambridge's public school teaching staff--or at her husband's "neanderthal" ideologies.
A landmark report in last week's issue of the journal Cell suggests that whatever else Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did, they probably did not make love. In a tour de force experiment that involved extracting a microscopic strand of ancient DNA from the arm bone of a Neanderthal skeleton...
All living creatures share a certain genetic heritage. But comparing a 378-unit sequence of DNA taken from mitochondria within a Neanderthal cell to modern DNA, Paabo's team found striking differences. Contemporary humans differ from one another by an average of eight variations in that sequence. The Neanderthal specimen...
The Spanish fossils, though nearly twice as old, show a mix of modern and Neanderthal facial traits. According to the new genealogy, H. antecessor evolved in Africa and gave rise to H. heidelbergensis and another, still undiscovered species. The former begat Neanderthals; the latter led to modern H. sapiens. Not...