Neanderthal
adjective
of or relating to Neanderthal man.
Neandertal
-
a variation of
Neanderthal.
Example Sentences
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Most humans outside of Africa carry an average of 2 percent Neandertal DNA.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2022
In 1997 he finally succeeded in isolating the genetic material from an approximately 40,000-year-old Neanderthal bone that was part of a Neandertal skeleton found near Düsseldorf in the 1850s.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2022
In 2021, Pääbo and his team made headlines when they reported that people with a specific Neandertal variant on the third chromosome were at a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2022
This was the first time the world had access to a piece of Neandertal genome.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2022
The more primitive type is commonly called Neandertal man, from the famous cranium found in the Neandertal cave in 1857, or Mousterian man, from the culture associations.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
