Neanderthaloid
| Neanderthal Temporal range: – 0.250–0.040 Ma |
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| The Neanderthal skull of La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 | |
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| An approximate reconstruction of a Neanderthal skeleton. (The central ribcage, including the sternum, and parts of the pelvis are from modern humans.) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Genus: | Homo |
| Species: | H. neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens |
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Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens King, 1864 |
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| Known Neanderthal range in Europe (blue), Southwest Asia (orange), Uzbekistan (green), and the Altai mountains (violet). | |
| Synonyms | |
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Homo mousteriensis |
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Homo mousteriensis
Palaeoanthropus neanderthalensis
Neanderthals (UK: /niˈændərˌtɑːl/, also US: /neɪ-, -ˈɑːn-, -ˌtɔːl, -ˌθɔːl/), more rarely known as Neandertals, were a species or subspecies of archaic humans in the genus Homo that became extinct about 40,000 years ago. Neanderthals and modern humans share 99.7% of their DNA and are hence closely related. (By comparison, both modern humans and Neanderthals share 98.8% of their DNA with their closest non-human living relatives, the chimpanzees.) Neanderthals left bones and stone tools in Eurasia, from Western Europe to Central and Northern Asia. Fossil evidence suggests Neanderthals evolved in Europe, separate from modern humans in Africa for more than 400,000 years. They are considered either a distinct species, Homo neanderthalensis, or more rarely as a subspecies of Homo sapiens (H. s. neanderthalensis).
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