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Scientists Unlock One of The Mysteries of Ancient Human Evolution - You could say Neanderthals are an extreme version of Homo sapiens. Previous attempts to characterize Neandertal brains as “primitive“ were based on skull examinations, which allowed anthropologists to “see“ what they believed or desired to believe, particularly in terms of the occipital and frontal lobes. Neanderthals have always been regarded as primitive, and some now regard them as large-brained but lacking high-level intelligence and retaining primitive features in their brain. Nonetheless, their physical characteristics are most likely due to physiology, morphology and metabolic adaptations associated with muscularity and living in a glacial and tundra-like environment, rather than lack of behavioral complexity. Surely, no other human group has faced so many insults as our distant cousins from eons ago. All manner of pathological and evolutionary insults have been directed at this early representati
