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Neanderthal Babies May Have Been More Human Than We Realized, New Study Reveals

New scans suggest Neanderthal babies developed much like modern human infants before major differences appeared after birth.

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We’ve learned so much about Neanderthals in the past year. We have to be living through some kind of Neanderthal knowledge Golden age. Not sure what breakthroughs started it, but we’re drowning in recent discoveries, like the fact that Neanderthals were a lot smarter than we’ve given them credit for. So smart that they developed a version of dentistry that was shockingly advanced and absolutely brutal.

We also learned that Neanderthal kids hunted frogs to kill time. And now, thanks to a new study published in Royal Society Open Science, and doubly thanks to a recently........

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