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Neandertal

noun
1.
Extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia.  Synonyms: Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, Neandertal man, Neanderthal, Neanderthal man.
adjective
1.
Relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man.  Synonyms: Neanderthal, Neanderthalian.
2.
Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.  Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neanderthal, oafish, swinish.  "The loutish manners of a bully" , "Her stupid oafish husband" , "Aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"



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... apes, so on the other hand, much progress has been made since Darwin's day in the discovery and description of the oldest human remains. Since the famous roof of a skull and the bones of the extremities belonging to it were found in 1856 in the Neandertal near Duesseldorf, the most varied judgments have been expressed in regard to the significance of the remains and of the skull in particular. In Darwin's Descent of Man there is only a passing allusion to them[113] in connection ...
— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel


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