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Neanderthal /nɪˈandətɑːl /noun1 (also Neanderthal man) An extinct species of human that was widely distributed in ice-age Europe between circa 120,000 and 35,000 years ago, with a receding forehead and prominent brow ridges. The Neanderthals were associated with the Mousterian flint industry of the Middle Palaeolithic.- Homo neanderthalensis; now usually regarded as a separate species from H. sapiens and probably at the end of a different evolutionary line.
Eventually we dominated and may have caused the extinction of another earlier human species, the Neanderthals....- In my view, modern humans evolved in situ from Neanderthals in Europe, as they did from robust forms elsewhere.
- Modern humans probably exterminated the world's other archaic humans, the Neanderthals in Europe.
1.1An uncivilized, unintelligent, or uncouth man: the stereotype of the mechanic as a macho Neanderthal...- Proposed Slogan: ‘We Don't Think All you Religious Neanderthals are Credulous Bumpkins!
- Maybe I should go back and apologize to the meathead nitwit Neanderthal!
- Would the knuckle dragging, brain dead, Neanderthal who removed the hanging basket from the exterior of Rock House please return it.
adjective1Relating to Neanderthals: a Neanderthal axe...- Researchers at York University have made it possible for an international team to extract and sequence protein from a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal fossil discovered in Shanidar Cave in Iraq.
- A digger uncovered what could be Britain's best-preserved Neanderthal butchery site, which included the remains of mammoths and other ancient beasts as well as hand axes used by early humans.
- The Neanderthal specimen, known as Mezmaiskaya Child, that Goodwin used to prove the existence of the missing link was around 29,000 years old and came from the northern caucuses.
1.1(Of a man) uncivilized, unintelligent, or uncouth: they were pushed back by Neanderthal security guards...- I just don't want to be one of those Neanderthal guys who just knock women over the head and drag them back to their caves, as it were.
- I will not allow myself to think like my Neanderthal father.
- It feels like a modern Spanish tapas bar in buzzing Barcelona, except for the Neanderthal males, of course.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Neanderthal, the name of a region in Germany (now Neandertal) where remains of Neanderthal man were found. |