Fossil Find Suggests Neanderthal Niceness
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Neanderthals might not have been as savage as has been believed. A 200,000-year-old jawbone discovered last year in southern France suggests that the primitive hominids took care of one another, in this case feeding a toothless peer, an international team of experts said.
“We mustn’t dehumanize these beings. They show an entirely human kind of behavior,” said Canadian paleontologist Serge Lebel.
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