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Neanderthal


(nee-AN-duhr-thawl, nee-AN-duhr-tawl) The ancient and now extinct relatives of modern humans. Neanderthals lived in Europe about 150,000 years ago and were the earliest form of the human species, Homo sapiens.	1
‡ The term Neanderthal is sometimes used to refer to a person who is thought to have primitive or unenlightened ideas: “I tried talking politics to Joe, but he’s a real Neanderthal.”	2

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