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Neanderthal man   /niˈændərθˌɔl mæn/   Listen
Neanderthal man

noun
1.
Extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia.  Synonyms: Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, Neandertal, Neandertal man, Neanderthal.





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"Neanderthal man" Quotes from Famous Books



... time, to recover with complete certainty the antiquity of the bed. We may presume that the Neanderthal man had a wife (as wives were then understood) and maintained a kind of housekeeping that may have gone no further than pawing some leaves together to sleep on; but this probably was a late development. Earlier we may imagine the wind blowing the autumn leaves together and a Neanderthal man lying ...
— The Perfect Gentleman • Ralph Bergengren
... that so much can be said; for the like of the Neanderthal skull has yet to be produced from among ...
— Freedom in Science and Teaching. - from the German of Ernst Haeckel • Ernst Haeckel


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