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Article: Neandertal facial length issue settled.
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- Life Science Weekly
- Article date:
- July 7, 2003
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2003 JUL 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New scientific evidence challenges a common perception that Neandertals - a close evolutionary relative to modern humans that lived 230,000 to 30,000 years ago - possessed exceptionally long faces.
Instead, a report authored by Erik Trinkaus, PhD, the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, shows that modern humans are really the "odd man out" when it comes to facial lengths, which drop off dramatically compared with their ancestral predecessors.
Trinkaus' findings, which will appear in a summer 2003 issue of the journal Proceedings of ...