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This Skull Is The Oldest Physical Proof of Neanderthals in Your Bloodline


The skull of a small child who lived and died many millennia ago represents the oldest direct evidence to date of the prolonged mingling between anatomically modern humans and our closely related cousins, the Neanderthals.

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