Neanderthal man
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- noun
- /niˈændərˌθɔl mæn/
- Specialized
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hombre de Neandertal
- During the prior hundred thousand years or so, mankind shared the world with other variants of Erect man, such as Archaic man in Asia and Neanderthal man in Europe, and their lifestyle seemed similar.
Examples
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The fact that Neanderthal man, Homo de Cro-Magnon, and others looked so different from us now is because of random genetic drift, not because of positive selection.
Blog text (3) -
Studies of Neanderthal man have shown they were skilled hunters and gatherers.
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There was no way this Neanderthal man could be real, thought Mary, but if it were...
Fiction book (2002) -
The Neanderthal man, hunter-gatherer, seeks nourishment.
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The Neanderthal man suddenly disappeared in favor of Homo de Cro-Magnon.
Blog text (3) -
Cuozzo (1998) provides a dentist's careful analysis of the evidence for Neanderthal man.
Blog text (8) -
Because back in the wilderness when the Neanderthal man was didn't have of a fire and he wanted to get warm, a person next to him warmed him.
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It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.
Academic text (1991) -
The discovery of Neanderthal man remains significant in understanding human evolution.
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Archaeologists found tools used by Neanderthal man in the cave paintings of southern France.
Synonyms
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A kind of early human that lived in Europe and western Asia long ago
An extinct group of humans that lived in Europe and western Asia long ago
A type of human that lived in Europe and western Asia long ago and is now extinct
An extinct type of human that lived in Europe and western Asia long ago
Surface Forms
Morphology
If a learner knows 'Neanderthal' (the archaic human species) and 'man' (a human), the phrase straightforwardly denotes a human individual of that species, so the meaning is directly compositional. This noun + noun naming pattern is cross-linguistically common and predictable, making it immediately understandable to learners who know both constituents.
Etymology
Neanderthal man comes from the Neander Valley in Germany, where bones of this early human were found in the 1800s. The part Neanderthal is the place name and man means a human, so the name came to mean an 'extinct' kind of human.