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Neanderthals were on average more muscular than humans and they lacked a chin, they were social creatures living in small tribes, like the humans of their time, Neanderthals also possessed the right skull features to be able to speak <ref>Neanderthal Myths <i>Neanderthal, Channel 4</i> [http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/N/neanderthal/]</ref>.

Neanderthals were on average more muscular than humans and they lacked a chin, they were social creatures living in small tribes, like the humans of their time, Neanderthals also possessed the right skull features to be able to speak <ref>Neanderthal Myths <i>Neanderthal, Channel 4</i> [http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/N/neanderthal/]</ref>.

The popular impression of him as a stooping brute is incorrect and derives from the original poor reconstruction in the Neanderthal valley. It has also been suggested that the first individual found suffered from vitamin D deficiency ([[rickets]]) or [[syphilis]].

The popular impression of him as a stooping brute is incorrect and derives from the original poor reconstruction in the Neanderthal valley. It has also been suggested that the first individual found suffered from vitamin D deficiency ([[rickets]]) or [[syphilis]].

==Society==

==Society==

Neanderthals were probably about as intelligent as an average human, they were social creatures living in small tribes, like the humans of their time, studies suggest that Neanderthal tribes interacted less with each other than human tribes did.

Neanderthals were probably about as intelligent as an average human, they were social creatures living in small tribes, like the humans of their time, studies suggest that Neanderthal tribes interacted less with each other than human tribes did.

==History==

==History==

[[Image:Neanderthal_sites.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The last refuges of the Neanderthal.]]

[[Image:Neanderthal_sites.gif|right|thumb|300px|The last refuges of the Neanderthal.]]

Neanderthal man developed from ''Homo erectus'', though the widespread distribution of intermediate form hinders an attempt to resolve any single geographical locality as the place of development. The fate of Neanderthals is equally hard or determine: they either became assimilated into encroaching human populations or merely died out.  

Neanderthal man developed from ''Homo erectus'', though the widespread distribution of intermediate form hinders an attempt to resolve any single geographical locality as the place of development. The fate of Neanderthals is equally hard or determine: they either became assimilated into encroaching human populations or merely died out.  

[[Category:Primates]]

[[Category:Primates]]

==References==

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