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Erik Trinkaus is professor of physical anthropology at Washington

University in St. Louis:
Detailed comparisons of Neanderthal skeletal remains with those of mod-
ern humans have shown that there is nothing in Neanderthal anatomy
that conclusively indicates locomotor, manipulative, intellectual, or lin-
guistic abilities inferior to those of modern humans. 319
From Prevention magazine, a pro-evolution periodical:
Dr. Francis Ivanhoe (London) solved the Neanderthal puzzle by having
his research published in Nature magazine in August, 1970. Dr. Francis
Ivanhoe has claimed that the teeth of Neanderthal Man show specific ev-
idence of rickets (caused by a Vitamin D deficiency) and that X-rays of the
bones of Neanderthal Man show the characteristic rickets ring pattern. 320

He had a brain with a capacity sometimes larger than that of modern
man. He was a talented toolmaker and successful hunter, even dabbled in
art and, most importantly from a cultural standpoint, developed a rudi-
mentary social and religious consciousness. 321
Bonnie Blackwell is an evolutionist geologist at the City
University of New York's Queens College:
Neanderthals were apparently quite similar to Homo sapiens in their be-
havior and cognitive capacities. In both groups, musical traditions proba-
bly extend back very far into prehistory. The Slovenian bone closely re-
sembles several hole-bearing bones that were likely to have been used as
musical instruments by humans at later European sites, according to ar-
chaeologist Randall K. White of New York University. 322
Sarah Bunney is an executive editor and science writer:
Paleontologists in Israel have discovered a fossil bone which shows that
Neanderthals may have been just as capable of speech as modern hu-
mans. The bone, known as the hyoid, is from a Neanderthal who lived be-
tween 50,000 and 60,000 years ago. The hyoid, a small U-shaped bone, is
a key part of the vocal apparatus in modern human beings. According to
B. Arensberg and Yoel Rak of Tel Aviv University and their colleagues, the
fossil hyoid, in size and shape, is just like a modern human's... The re-
searchers believe that, despite their heavy jawbones, Neanderthals spoke
a language. 323
The Neanderthals were a human race, with large, powerful muscles, who