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Is it my imagination, or do the pictures of neandertals today look more like us than they did years ago? I wonder if this is based on new evidence or what?
susie

I think you're right.

Early drawings of Neanderthal depicted a slouched-over, crude individual largely because the first Neanderthal found was suffering from severe arthritis. This image got into the popular literature and supported the "cave man" image for a century.

It is only in the last decades that this incorrect portrayal in the popular literature is being corrected.

17 posted on 10/28/2007 4:43:42 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)

Kind of like the brontosaurus head (I forget what they now call it anyway, apatosaurus?) Thanks, that makes sense.
susie

33 posted on 10/28/2007 6:07:24 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)