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A DEFINITIVE REPLY
TO EVOLUTIONIST
PROPAGANDA
Neanderthal Man is a True Human Being
A number of anatomical and cultural features of Neanderthal
man are distorted on The Discovery Channel. This distortion can
even be seen in the interpretation of the very word Neanderthal.
Neanderthal man is spoken of in the documentary as "primitive
Stone-Age man." Yet the fact is that Neanderthal means nothing of
WHICH ONE IS THE
1870 Some drawings show 1952
Neanderthal man as a
family father; others
present him as a sav-
age animal or a tran-
sitional form between
ape and man.
However, in truth,
Neanderthals were
human beings. Their
only difference from
modern man is that
their skeletons are
more robust and their
cranial capacity
slightly bigger.
the sort. The name of this human race comes from the Neander val-
ley near the German city of Dusseldorf (The first discoveries of this
man were made by miners working in a cave in the valley in 1856.)
In the documentary, Neanderthal man is described as having a
strong body, with a sloping, narrow forehead, following which
there is speculation about his artistic levels. We are told that he left
behind him no cave drawings in the habitat he lived in, and it is
suggested that he thus left "no clues as to his symbolic life." The pro-
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