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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



... anatomist, Gustav Schwalbe, deserved great praise for having the moral courage to oppose this dogmatic and ungrounded teaching of Virchow, and showing its untenability. The recent admirable works of Schwalbe on the Pithecanthropus, the earliest races of men, and the Neanderthal skull (1897 to 1901) will supply any candid and judicious reader with the empirical material with which he can convince himself of the baselessness of the erroneous dogmas of Virchow and his clerical friends (J. ...
— The Evolution of Man, V.2 • Ernst Haeckel


Words linked to "Neanderthal" :   Neanderthalian, loutish, oafish, neandertal, man, swinish, homo, unrefined


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