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Baby Neanderthals may have had a rapid growth spurt compared to modern babies
- April 16, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Baby Neanderthals may have been much larger and grown much more quickly than their modern Homo sapiens counterparts, according to a new study of the most intact Neanderthal infant skeleton. Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) are our closest extinct relatives, an ancient group of humans that lived in Eurasia from several hundred thousand years ago until they disappeared around 40,000 years ago.
Originally published at Phys.org