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- noun Plural form of
Neanderthal .
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Examples
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I believe 'Neanderthals' is being kind whens describing the archaic views of the men and women across the isle.
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Lucky that much of the Republican party doesn't believe in Neanderthals, and certainly that we are in any way related to them.
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Less sexual dimorphism in Neanderthals than humans, as Neanderthal women hunted with the women — they apparently did relatively little gathering of wild plants.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “I, for One, Welcome My Neandertal Ancestry” 2010
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Neanderthals is actually too nice of a word to call most republican politicians.
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In The New World Order, for instance, I dropped every clue I could think of to indicate that my heroes were Neanderthals from a parallel version of Earth, up to and including an author†™ s afterword that mentions skeletons of their kind being found “in a cave in the Neander valley (in German, Neander Thal) near Dusseldorfâ€.
Yatterings » The New World Order according to Ben Jeapes 2007
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The disappearance of Neanderthals is frequently attributed to competition from modern humans, whose greater intelligence has been widely supposed to make them more efficient as hunters.
Why I don't.... 2006
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What people are asking is, "Why do we have this weird group of humans who lived in Europe and the Near East that we call Neanderthals?"
Bending the Branches 2006
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Nedut, a tale of the time after the ones we called Neanderthals (or Nedu for short) came home and wanted back the old grazing grounds.
Ecstatic Days Jukka Halme 2008
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They found that the Neanderthals were able to hunt Caucasian tur, large mountain goats that took considerable skill to capture.
Anthropologists adopt a more favorable view of Neanderthals Marc Kaufman 2010
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They based their conclusion that Neanderthal and Homo sapiens weapons were roughly comparable in part on the fact that the tur killed by the Neanderthals were adults, the most difficult to track and bring down.
Anthropologists adopt a more favorable view of Neanderthals Marc Kaufman 2010
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