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THE NEUROLOGY OF NEANDERTHAL
When the last Neanderthal man mysteriously disappeared 27,000 years ago from the Iberian Peninsula, human language had already been spoken and ritual burials had been enacted. The Neanderthals were not alone. Homo sapiens, an intruder from the East, roamed the European continent pushing the Neanderthals to strongholds in the West where eventually they faded from archeology, leaving behind a strong presence in caves and graves. For many millennia, perhaps a quarter of a million years, Neanderthal man dominated Western Europe. Many of the best Neanderthal specimens have been found in the Iberian Peninsula, in regions of northern Spain and southern France. Were the Neanderthals extinct without biological trace, as modern indigenous tribes have been vanished from certain areas of the world, or were they gradually absorbed by more powerful invaders? History and archeology are struggling to find an answer to this question that begs asking whether biological clusters of Neanderthal man still exist today. In other words, are there Neanderthals in our midst?
We know that Neanderthals were a separate species of human. From the study of bones and skulls it has been conjectured that Neanderthal man had a characteristic physical appearance. They were stocky and strong with a robust, heavy muscled body. The face featured prominent supraorbital …
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