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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Nean′derthal man′, - Physical Anthropologya member of an extinct subspecies of powerful, physically robust humans, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, that inhabited Europe and western and central Asia c100,000–40,000b.c.See illus. under hominid.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Neanderthal man n - a type of primitive man, Homo neanderthalensis, or H. sapiens neanderthalensis, occurring throughout much of Europe in late Palaeolithic times: it is thought that they did not interbreed with other early humans and are not the ancestors of modern humans
Etymology: 19th Century: from the anthropological findings (1857) in the Neandertal, a valley near Düsseldorf, Germany |