A fierce debate revolves around whether Neandertals, who lived in Europe and the Middle East from around 130,000 to 28,000 years ago, belonged to the human species or a separate one.
A new technique for probing fossil anatomy has generated support for the designation of Neandertals as a separate species, according to a report in the Aug.
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