a****a 发帖数: 3905 | 1 Constance Holden
Next to our own selves, there is no more interesting hominid than the Neande
rtal. Neandertals are the humans manqué, the evolutionary dead end: eerily
like us, but different in major ways. And they are the subject of one of the
hottest ongoing debates in anthropology.
How smart were these big-brained, stocky-bodied people, who inhabited Europe
and the Middle East starting about 200,000 years ago? And what caused their
relatively abrupt disappearance by 30,000 years ago? The Nea |
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