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  2. Neanderthal anatomy - Wikipedia

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    Along with longer toes, Neanderthals are found to have longer heel bones when compared to Homo sapiens’ heel bones. [26] The Neanderthal anatomy is more suited for the cold environments of Europe, as seen with their longer toes and longer heel bones, because it made them well-suited for hiking, hunting, and even sprinting in the hilly and ...

  3. La Ferrassie 1 - Wikipedia

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    The skull is the most complete Neanderthal skull ever found. [2] With a cranial capacity of 1641 cm 3 , it is the second largest hominid skull ever discovered, after Amud 1 . The skull displays many of the "classic" examples of Neanderthal anatomy, including a low, sloping forehead and large nasal openings.The teeth are well preserved and the ...

  4. Neanderthal - Wikipedia

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    Neanderthal 1, the type specimen, was known as the "Neanderthal cranium" or "Neanderthal skull" in anthropological literature, and the individual reconstructed on the basis of the skull was occasionally called "the Neanderthal man". [105]

  5. Miguelón - Wikipedia

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    Subsequently, there is debate about whether to include them within Homo heidelbergensis or whether they represent early members of Homo neanderthalensis. [1] Miguelón, around thirty years old, had suffered 13 impacts in the head and died of sepsis resulting from broken teeth. The frontal squama has a spherical depression on the left side ...

  6. Amud 1 - Wikipedia

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    In 1995, Hovers et al. argued that its cranial and mandibular particularities made it fully Neanderthal, [11] although this is rejected by Belfer-Cohen (1998). Amud 1 shares many traits with early Homo sapiens and modern sapiens, and is sometimes mis-classified as Homo sapiens based through multivariate analysis, unlike all other Neanderthals.

  7. Puzzling fossils unearthed in China may rewrite the human story

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    The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites across the country are clearly remnants of archaic hominins — the formal name for species in the human lineage ...

  8. Homo - Wikipedia

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    Homo (from Latin homō 'human') is a genus of great ape (family Hominidae) that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses only a single extant species, Homo sapiens (modern humans), along with a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans; these include Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis.

  9. Fossil of child with Down syndrome hints at Neanderthal ...

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    Neanderthals, formally called Homo neanderthalensis, were more robustly built than Homo sapiens and had larger brows. They lived from around 430,000 years ago to roughly 40,000 years ago.