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What impressions are we given when examining the Neanderthal from an evolutionary perspective?

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When placed in an evolutionary perspective, Neanderthal anatomy gives the impression of a large and somewhat "primitive" hominid, as though the evolutionary trajectory of Homo sapiens had somehow reversed itself.

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