Evolution
Rockshelter Discoveries Show Neandertals Were a Lot like Us
Our much maligned cousins made sophisticated ornaments and probably had language
David W. Frayer is an emeritus professor of biological anthropology at the University of Kansas. He has studied skeletal variation and behavior in Neandertals and other early human populations spanning more than a million years. Credit: Nick Higgins
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