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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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Silently each Neanderthal man stepped behind a trunk of one of the trees lining the path.
One hundred thousand years of human life in Europe produced nothing higher than Neanderthal man.
Neanderthal man had originally entered Europe when the climate was much milder than it is in our own time.
One wonders what the Neanderthal man would have thought of a de luxe 4-room outfit, or complete home, for $198.
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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