Meanings of Neandertal in English

Others, however, were troubled that the Neandertal and modern features weren't more blended.

Many people refused to accept that the Neandertal bones were ancient at all.

DNA was extracted from the Neandertal-type specimen found in 1856 in western Germany.

Either he was physiologically primitive or Neandertal's posture had been misdescribed.

Some cite Germany as the first place humanity meets Neandertal.

Mechanical interpretations of Neandertal skeletal robusticity suggest extremely high activity levels compared to modern humans.

Of the Neandertal specimens, the best preserved was sitting unremarked on a shelf in London.

However, there are a growing number of researchers that believe Neandertal man simply did not exist.

While retrieving DNA from presumed Neandertal fossils in November 2009, Krause noticed an unusual mitochondrial sequence.

A model of genealogical continuity between EEMH and contemporary Europeans, with no Neandertal contribution, received overwhelming support from the analyses.

No Neandertal remains have ever been found in north Africa, but their tool kits turn up all over the place.

Like the extinction of megafauna in Australia, without any evidence of war or large-scale conflict, upon meeting humanity the Neandertal simply became extinct.

Sequence comparisons with human mtDNA sequences, as well as phylogenetic analyses, show that the Neandertal sequence falls outside the variation of modern humans.

Another anthropologist, puzzling over the Neandertal's heavy brow ridge, suggested that it was the result of long-term frowning arising from a poorly healed forearm fracture.

If this meeting occurred, it is likely that Neandertal man was a migration out of Africa that occurred much prior to the migration of humanity.

Mitochondrial DNA from the Denisova fossil differs from that of humans at almost twice as many chemical positions as Neandertal mitochondrial DNA does, Krause says.