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For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...

Braving the cold weather required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and to know how to make fire. But did they wear clothes?

"I wouldn't be surprised if they had a variety of coverings both to the face, the head, arms, legs, hands, feet — all of that." The front teeth of essentially all Neanderthals are worn down far ...