Neanderthals Didn't Look Like Us: and it Didn't Matter

"Study: Neanderthals Not Doomed by Skull Shape" FOXNews/LiveScience (March 24, 2008)

But they weren't helped all that much, either.

Now, paleontologists, some of them, say that the people who became our ancestors don't look much like Neanderthals, but that didn't help them much, and it didn't hurt the Neanderthals.

That changes about 150 years' of assumptions about human evolution. The new idea is based partly on studies of DNA and how fast the genetic code changes, when there's nothing forcing a change.

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