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What is a Neanderthal?

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A Neanderthal is an extinct human species (Homo neanderthalensis) that lived during the late Pleistocene epoch throughout most of Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa. Neanderthals were built differently from modern humans. There bodies were bulkier and they were stronger. Their brain was also slightly larger. Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are not decedents of Neanderthals, but we do share a common ancestor.

It is not certain whether the Neanderthal genome merged with the Cro-magnon genome, or whether they died out because we outcompeted them. If their genome merged with ours, they would be more properly called a human subspecies (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) rather than their own.

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