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Neanderthal man
noun
- a member of an extinct subspecies of powerful, physically robust humans, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, that inhabited Europe and western and central Asia c100,000–40,000 b.c.
Neanderthal man
noun
- a type of primitive man, Homo neanderthalensis, or H. sapiens neanderthalensis, occurring throughout much of Europe in late Palaeolithic times: it is thought that they did not interbreed with other early humans and are not the ancestors of modern humans
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Neanderthal man1
First recorded in 1860–65
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Neanderthal man1
C19: from the anthropological findings (1857) in the Neandertal, a valley near Düsseldorf, Germany
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Example Sentences
Silently each Neanderthal man stepped behind a trunk of one of the trees lining the path.
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One hundred thousand years of human life in Europe produced nothing higher than Neanderthal man.
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Neanderthal man had originally entered Europe when the climate was much milder than it is in our own time.
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One wonders what the Neanderthal man would have thought of a de luxe 4-room outfit, or complete home, for $198.
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The brain of Neanderthal man was known to be of large size even when estimated from the original skullcap of the Neanderthal type.
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