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Neanderthal   Listen
proper noun
Neanderthal  n.  
1.
(Anthropol.) A neanderthal human being; a member of the race Homo sapiens neanderthalensis; as, neanderthals were shorter than modern humans.
2.
One resembling a neanderthal human; a troglodyte; a cave man.
3.
Hence: (Fig.) A person of primitive, unenlightened or uneducated opinions or attitudes; one with a regressive social or political outlook; used disparagingly.





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"Neanderthal" Quotes from Famous Books



... improbability in them. But, in point of fact, the wonder is that human remains have not been found more frequently in pre-glacial deposits. Referring to the most ancient fossil remains found in Europe—the Engis and Neanderthal crania,—Professor Huxley makes the following weighty remark: "In conclusion, I may say, that the fossil remains of Man hitherto discovered do not seem to me to take us appreciably nearer to that lower pithecoid ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace
... discarded the "noble savage," so dearly beloved by our grandfathers, and they have replaced him by the "splendid savage" of the French Valleys who 35,000 years ago made an end to the universal rule of the low-browed and low-living brutes of the Neanderthal and other Germanic neighbourhoods. They have shown us the elephants the Cro-Magnon painted and the statues he carved and they have surrounded him with ...
— The Story of Mankind • Hendrik van Loon
... A Neanderthal skull was staring hungrily at a twelve foot skeleton of a giant bird. And a restoration of a tiny little equus was looking up like an inquisitive mouse at a huge ruined painting by ...
— Hunters Out of Space • Joseph Everidge Kelleam


Words linked to "Neanderthal" :   oafish, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, loutish, homo, unrefined, Neanderthalian, man


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