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175,000-Year-Old Underground Circles Built by Neanderthals

All too often, Neanderthals are seen as thick-browed thugs. As recently as the late 1990s and early 2000s, the mainstream scientific community rejected the idea that Neanderthals were intelligent or sophisticated. Over the years, after their discovery, scientists have tried to understand why Neanderthals died out and we survived, with the assumption that they were inferior in ...

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Neanderthal's face.