Crossword clues for neanderthal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
neanderthal \neanderthal\ adj. 1. uncouth in manners or appearance.
Syn: boorish, clownish, loutish, oafish.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1861, in reference to a type of extinct hominid, from German Neanderthal "Neander Valley," name of a gorge near Düsseldorf where humanoid fossils were identified in 1856. The place name is from the Graecized form of Joachim Neumann (literally "new man," Greek *neo-ander), 1650-1680, German pastor, poet and hymn-writer, who made this a favorite spot in the 1670s. Adopting a classical form of one's surname was a common practice among educated Germans in this era. As a noun, by 1915; as a type of a big, brutish, stupid person from 1926.
Wiktionary
a. Primitive, old-fashioned, opposed to change (in allusion to the now extinct species ''Homo neanderthalensis''). alt. 1 (context pejorative English) A primitive person or a person with old-fashioned ideas or who opposes change. 2 (usually ''Neanderthal'') A specimen of the now extinct species ''Homo neanderthalensis''. n. 1 (context pejorative English) A primitive person or a person with old-fashioned ideas or who opposes change. 2 (usually ''Neanderthal'') A specimen of the now extinct species ''Homo neanderthalensis''.
WordNet
adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" [syn: boorish, loutish, neandertal, oafish, swinish]
relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man; "Neanderthal skull" [syn: Neanderthalian, Neandertal]
Wikipedia
Neanderthal is a bestselling novel written by John Darnton published by Random House in 1996.
Neanderthals or Neandertals , also -, --, -, -) (named for the Neandertal in Germany) were a species or subspecies of archaic human, in the genus Homo, which became extinct around 40,000 years ago. They were closely related to modern humans, having DNA over 99.5% the same. Remains left by Neanderthals include bone and stone tools, which are found in Eurasia, from Western Europe to Central, Northern, and Western Asia. Neanderthals are generally classified by paleontologists as the species Homo neanderthalensis, having separated from the Homo sapiens lineage 600,000 years ago, or alternatively, as a subspecies of Homo sapiens (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis).
Several cultural assemblages have been linked to the Neanderthals in Europe. The earliest, the Mousterian stone tool culture, dates to about 160,000 years ago. Late Mousterian artifacts were found in Gorham's Cave on the south-facing coast of Gibraltar.
Compared to Homo sapiens, Neanderthals had a lower surface-to-volume ratio, with shorter legs and a bigger body in conformance with Bergmann's rule, as an energy-loss reduction adaptation to life in a high-latitude (i.e. seasonally cold) climate. Their average cranial capacity of 1600 cm was notably larger than the 1250 – 1400 cm average for modern humans. Males stood and females tall.
The Neanderthal genome project published papers in 2010 and 2014 stating that Neanderthals contributed to the DNA of modern humans, including most humans outside sub-Saharan Africa, as well as a few sub-Saharan Africa's populations, through interbreeding, likely between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago. Recent studies also show that a few Neanderthals began mating with ancestors of modern humans long before the large "out of Africa migration" of the present day non-Africans, as early as 100,000 years ago. In 2016, research indicated that modern humans had three distinct interbreeding events with Neanderthals: the first encounter involved the ancestors of all non-African modern humans, probably soon after leaving Africa; the second, after the ancestral Melanesian group had branched off (and subsequently had a unique breeding event with Denisovans); and the third, involving the ancestors of East Asians only.
In December 2013, researchers reported evidence that Neanderthals practiced burial behavior and intentionally buried their dead. In addition, scientists reported having sequenced the entire genome of a Neanderthal for the first time. The genome was extracted from the toe bone of a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal found in a Siberian cave. In 2016, elaborate constructions of rings of broken stalagmites made by early Neanderthals around 176,000 years ago were discovered inside Bruniquel Cave in south-western France. This would have required a more advanced social structure than previously known for Neanderthals.
Neanderthal, or Homo neanderthalensis, was a species of the Homo genus that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia.
Neanderthal may also refer to:
- Neandertal, a valley near Düsseldorf, Germany, famous for the discovery of the first found Neanderthal in 1856
- Neanderthal 1, the skull found in Neandertal in 1856
- Neanderthal (novel), a 1996 novel by John Darnton
- Neanderthal (band), a 1990s power violence band
- Neanderthal (album), a 2008 album of Danish band Spleen United
Neanderthal is the second studio album by Danish electronic rock band Spleen United. It topped the Danish Albums Chart at #1.
Usage examples of "neanderthal".
Since the bear, the leading figure of the Ainu pantheon, is regarded as a mountain god, a number of scholars have suggested that a like belief may account for the selection of lofty mountain caves to be the chapels of the old Neanderthal bear cult.
And this conjecture is the more likely in the light of the later appearance of domesticated fire, not only in the high Neanderthal bear sanctuaries but also in the context of the Ainu bear festivals, where it is identified explicitly with the manifestation of a goddess.
Lurt adopted the posture Mary had seen frequently now amongst Neanderthals, slightly tipping her head forward so that her browridge provided maximal shading for her eyes.
Then the great bat, Desmodus, sped east, making for a distant stack, while on the ground a trog set off to lope westward, cupping horny hands to his Neanderthal face and sending a cry ringing ahead of him.
While they were alive, the Neanderthals developed more or less in parallel with modern humans.
Such prejudiced and frankly Neanderthal attitudes towards the problem of drug abuse ensure that the fight against drugs and drug-based crime will never be won.
You said that when you were a boy you called the Neanderthals -- that is, the Hams -- bar-bars.
We think Hic may be from the late Pleistocene or early Holocene and got his charge in some cataclysm that was dramatic enough to make a Neanderthal aware.
Neanderthals who ran the world was a horselaugh, or even worse, a thank-you letter?
Ponter and the known fossil Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA, but in none of the Gliksins, or vice versa.
Even though Mary Vaughan had found no evidence that the Neanderthal magnetic field really had reversed, Jock had used his clout to make the swapping of paleomagnetic information a top priority.
You have not considered the plight of Pulex irritans, the human flea: Unless prompt action is taken, future generations will know this heritage from Neanderthal man only by studying dried specimens in museums.
Let anyone who imagined that the Neanderthals had been mere bestial shaggy half-men listen to Timmie retelling the story of Theseus in the Labyrinth!
One was an enforcer, apparently something akin to a cop, and the other was a portly Neanderthal roboticist named Dern.
Neanderthals had no shuttle, their aircars would make short work of us if we were spotted.