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  • The Neanderthaler culture had survival challenges that would intimidate any of us H. Sap.

    Think Progress » CPAC will feature a Pelosi piñata and Reid punching bag. 2010

  • The highly civilized apes swung gracefully from bough to bough, the Neanderthaler was uncouth and bound to the earth.

    Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

  • The apes, saturated and peaceful, lived in sophisticated playfulness, or caught fleas in philosophic contemplation; the Neanderthaler trampled gloomily through the world, banging around with clubs.

    Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

  • There must have been laughter amidst the apes when the Neanderthaler first appeared on earth.

    Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

  • Sometimes horror seized them; they ate fruits and tender plants with delicate refinement; the Neanderthaler devoured raw meat, he slaughtered animals and his fellows.

    Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

  • There's now a Neanderthaler grocery across the street from me, in what used to be a florist shop.

    Monkey Economics 2005

  • They are the dream that has haunted man since the first Neanderthaler became conscious of his mortality.

    Jacob's Ladder Mackay, Colin 2003

  • A voice said: "This is the Neanderthaler, Vickers."

    Ring Around the Sun Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988 1952

  • "I doubt," said Vickers dryly, "that a Neanderthaler could work up a very powerful inferiority complex."

    Ring Around the Sun Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988 1952

  • Maybe I gave the Cro-Magnon a bit too much and the Neanderthaler less than what he had.

    Ring Around the Sun Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988 1952

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