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The history of Neanderthal influence from Atlantis to the contemporary era • Provides evidence of Neanderthal man’s superior intelligence • Explores the u

When a paleoanthropologist mysteriously disappears in the remote upper regions of the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan, two of his former students, once lovers and

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The Neanderthal is among the most mysterious relatives of Homo sapiens: Was he a dull, club-swinging muscleman, or a being with developed social behaviour and t