Meanings of neandertal in English

Were neandertal and modern human cranial differences produced by natural selection or genetic drift?

This suggests that Neandertals went extinct without contributing mtDNA to modern humans.

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.

Neandertal vertebrae were not simian at all.

Such activity patterns imply high energy requirements; yet it has been argued that Neandertals were also inefficient foragers.

Neandertals were nothing if not tough.

Thus, Neandertals could have been either highly active or poor foragers, but they could not have been both.

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