Thanks for using MEanderthal from the Smithsonian’s National Museum
of Natural History. Your image is attached.
You used your large brain to make clothing and sophisticated tools,
Homo neanderthalensis. You even buried your dead and put offerings in
the graves.
Your short, stocky body helped you conserve heat in cold environments.
Even your large nose helped: it warmed and humidified the air you
breathed. Did you sit around the fire and tell stories? There is still
a lot to learn about you, our closest extinct relative!
Get to know me and all the other early humans on the Smithsonian
website: humanorigins.si.edu
Download the Smithsonian MEanderthal app for iPhone and morph
yourself, your friends, or even Fluffy and Rover into early humans: humanorigins.si.edu/MEanderthal
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