In celebration of the Neanderthal man
Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 30 August 2005 Page Views: 1209
DiscoveriesCountry: Germany Neanderthal man is 150 next year [it says here - Ed], and German scholars are planning a series of events to mark the discovery in 1856, in the little Neander valley near Düsseldorf, of the first recognised ancestor of modern humans.More specimens of Homo sapiens neanderthalensis are known than of any other fossil hominid, and his supposedly slouching, brutish figure has long been a staple of cartoonists, as well as in recent years novels exploring what it means to be human.
The original reconstruction which inspired this subhuman vision, made almost a century ago using the complete skeleton from La Chapelle aux Saints in France, is now known to be erroneous: the remains were of an elderly man stooped from arthritis; but the opposite view of a few years ago, that a Neanderthal in a jacket and tie could easily be mistaken for a front-row forward on an evening out, is equally wrong: our closest ancestor had thick bones supporting a powerfully muscled body, beyond almost anything achieveable by any modern athlete.
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