The La Chapelle-aux-Saints skeleton is not a typical Neandertal

a. and therefore not considered to be a Neandertal.
b. because it represents what is most likely a deliberate burial.
c. because is that of an older male.
d. because, as a specimen, it is a nearly complete skeleton.
e. because the individual not only had arthritis of the spine but evidences an extreme in the Neandertal range of variation.


e

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