How to Use Neanderthal in a Sentence

Neanderthal

noun

• I can't believe I was married to that Neanderthal for three years.
• Some Neanderthals continue to resist the education reform bill.
• That points to Neanderthals not harvesting crabs with nets, which would have caught a wider range of animals.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 22 Feb. 2023
• In some cases, Neanderthals could be as much as half a foot shorter than Cro-Magnons.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
• So some Neanderthal in a pickup truck (and another in a car) came up from behind and flashed their headlights.
  — Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
• Previously, only humans and Neanderthals have been known to bury their dead.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2023
• For example, there is a body of work that examines how Neanderthals likely prepared larger game.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2024
• The list includes Shanidar 1, a middle-aged male Neanderthal discovered in a cave of Iraq.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2024
• The team selected two carrion crows, two collared doves, and a wood pigeon–similar species to what Neanderthals might have eaten.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 July 2024
• Since the Neanderthal discovery, the start date for human prehistory has been pushed farther and farther back.
  — Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
• That isolation put Neanderthals at an evolutionary disadvantage and could have led to their demise.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Sep. 2024
• Schmidt said that Neanderthals were already known to have made an adhesive from birch tar, which involved several steps to produce from tree bark by distillation.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
• Perhaps their aversion to new mates ultimately pushed Neanderthals from endangered to extinct.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2024
• Judging from relics uncovered in a cave in Iberia, Spain, the act of collecting may stretch at least as far back as our Neanderthal ancestry.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 21 Nov. 2024
• An analysis of an inner ear fossil from a young Neanderthal discovered in Spain suggests the child may have had Down syndrome.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
• Yet Neanderthals living in warm, wet environs had tooth-wear patterns similar to those of agricultural peoples who eat lots of fibrous plants.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• Enlarge / Artist's depiction of Neanderthals after taking down a lion.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2023
• Life New evidence shows Neanderthals got ‘surfer’s ear’ Our relationship with water still matters.
  — Big Think, 24 June 2024
• Several studies suggest that Neanderthal faces evolved to suit the colder climates of Northern Europe.
  — Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
• The remains of Neanderthals do not show clear evidence of lower intelligence than modern humans, some scientists have argued.
  — Peter Guo, NBC news, 28 May 2025
• Audiences learned to link modern art to prehistory and inquire about Neanderthal DNA.
  — Stefanos Geroulanos, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2024
• Bones of cave lions from thousands of years ago indicate that Neanderthals may have been capable of hunting the large predators, and that our relatives may have used the hides for cultural purposes.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• Some of their skeletal features resembled those of Homo sapiens, while others were more Neanderthal-like, making the species difficult to classify.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
• This all led the scientists to concludes that the most important genetic risk factor for Dupuytren’s disease is the lingering role of Neanderthal ancestry.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
• The areas of the human genome that had no traces of Neanderthal ancestry, the studies suggest, were quickly stripped of Neanderthal sequences through evolution after the gene flow.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
• In 2015, archaeologists discovered the remains of a Neanderthal in a cave in southern France.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
• The discovery means the two groups, who once interbred and left most humans alive today with traces of Neanderthal DNA, may have overlapped for several thousand years.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
• Indeed, the placement of the ochre fingerprint could suggest that Neanderthals were more advanced artists than traditionally thought, adorning objects not only with fingerprints but with human faces, as well.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2025
• But, while this group of people also had Neanderthal ancestry, their population must have died out, because their DNA doesn’t appear to contribute to modern-day genomes.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
• Along with the bone tools, jewelry, and even rope that archaeologists have found at other Neanderthal sites, the projectile is one more clue pointing to the fact that Neanderthals were actually pretty sharp.
  — ArsTechnica, 1 May 2025