To: Pharmboy
Old wisdom has it that since Neanderthals lived in ice-age climates, they needed more lung capacity (and nasal capacity)to take in more air than H. Sapiens. There must be references in the literature somewhere which discusses this.
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01/01/2003 7:33:36 AM PST by
stanz
To: stanz
The large nasal passage warmed the air.
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