Neandertal Skeleton Reveals the Growth Pattern of Our Extinct Cousins (IMAGE)

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Neandertal Skeleton Reveals the Growth Pattern of Our Extinct Cousins

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Skeleton of the Neanderthal boy recovered from the El Sidrón cave (Asturias, Spain). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 22, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Rosas at Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain, and colleagues was titled, "The growth pattern of Neandertals, reconstructed from a juvenile skeleton from El Sidrón (Spain)."

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Paleoanthropology Group MNCN-CSIC

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