Newsweek & Neandertals

Newsweek has a summation of the recent Neandertal papers. Nothing special, but a good reading of the public Zeitgeist.

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It's the first big-media mention of the Neanderthal-boost idea.

Pretty interesting. What if those cave paintings came from a large Neanderthal cerebellum? Didn't the Neanderthals have giant cerebellums?