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In popular culture Edit

Main article: Neanderthals in popular culture Neanderthals have been portrayed in popular culture including appearances in literature, visual media and comedy. Early 20th century artistic interpretations often presented Neanderthals as beastly creatures, emphasising hairiness and rough, dark complexion.[183]

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Notes Edit

^ dale. The German th throughout the 15th to 19th centuries; Tal became standardized with the Neandertal for both the valley and species/subspecies. The German noun is cognate with English. The German /t/ phoneme was frequently spelledthroughout the 15th to 19th centuries;became standardized with the German spelling reform of 1901, thus the German namefor both the valley and species/subspecies. ^ There are modern humans with noses as wide as those of Neanderthals and modern humans with similar nose lengths, but none with both Neanderthal nose width and nose length. ^ Homo floresiensis originated in an unknown location from unknown ancestors and reached remote parts of Homo erectus spread from Africa to western Asia, then east Asia and Indonesia; its presence in Europe is uncertain, but it gave rise to Homo antecessor, found in Homo heidelbergensis originated from Homo erectus in an unknown location and dispersed across Africa, southern Asia and southern Europe (other scientists interpret fossils, here named heidelbergensis, as late erectus). Homo sapiens sapiens spread from Africa to western Asia and then to Europe and southern Asia, eventually reaching Australia and the Americas. In addition to Neanderthals and Denisovans, a third [115] originated in an unknown location from unknown ancestors and reached remote parts of Indonesia spread from Africa to western Asia, then east Asia and Indonesia; its presence in Europe is uncertain, but it gave rise to, found in Spain originated fromin an unknown location and dispersed across Africa, southern Asia and southern Europe (other scientists interpret fossils, here named, as late).spread from Africa to western Asia and then to Europe and southern Asia, eventually reaching Australia and the Americas. In addition to Neanderthals and Denisovans, a third gene flow of archaic Africa origin is indicated at the right. ^ [6] Higham et al did not study samples from sites outside Europe and they stated that further work was required to rule out later survival at Gorhams Cave, Gibraltar.

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