Scientists Discovered Another Similarity Between Us and Neanderthals

This time, it’s what’s on the inside that counts.

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So, I was thinking, we don’t really know what happened to the other human species who once walked the Earth All we know for sure is we, homo sapiens, are the last ones standing… literally. Maybe it’s our egos, or perhaps our longing for connection, but we love looking for similarities and differences between us and them.

Over the decades, science has helped us repaint our understanding of who our ancient human relatives were. Turns out, the Neanderthals at least, may not have been all that different from us. This is supported by a recent theory I wrote about pertaining to their extinction, now new evidence indicates that we had even more in common with Neanderthals than we thought.

Similarities with Our Prehistoric Relatives

It’s wild to consider the similarities between our other human relatives and us, let alone imagine coexisting with them. But they may not have been all that different based on the fossils discovered.

Our skeletal structures and proportions are comparable despite some variations in size. Neanderthals were shorter than most modern humans but were more muscular with larger heads, facial features, and…