neanderthal

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Not only that, but anyone who'd even consider the simple explanation must be ridiculed and called a neanderthal.

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  1. uncouth in manners or appearance.
  2. Of, pertaining to, or named from, the Neanderthal, a valley in the Rhine Province, in which were found parts of a skeleton of an early type of man. The skull is characterized by extreme dolichocephaly, flat, retreating forehead, with closed frontal sutures, and enormous superciliary ridges. The cranial capacity is estimated at about 1,220 cubic centimeters, being about midway between that of the Pithecanthropus and modern man.
  3. A neanderthal human being; a member of the race Homo sapiensneanderthalensis; as, neanderthals were shorter than modern humans.

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  1. extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
  2. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
  3. relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man

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  • Do you understand that this makes the T191 the most versatile netbook since post-neanderthal man invented mechanisms for slicing bread? —  Technology Reviews, News
  • Not only that, but anyone who'd even consider the simple explanation must be ridiculed and called a neanderthal. —  Latest Articles
  • YOU are not "the" neanderthal, since even a cursory examination of this website clearly indicates there are more than one, but "a" neaderthal. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • The apes get angry when you hit the truth and, like their neanderthal predecessors, want to get violent and beat you up and call you what they think are derisive "unmanly" terms-pussy. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Last refuge of a neanderthal, making excuses for his poor grammar instead of correcting it. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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