
Scientists Just Discovered Another GHOST Neanderthal Population
Jun 10, 2026
What if one of the great scientific “discoveries” about Neanderthals was not a discovery at all, but a return to an older prejudice dressed up in modern language? What if the story that Neanderthals vanished because their brains were inferior was never really proven, never really measured in a fair way, and never really separated from the deep old habit of imagining them as almost human, but not quite human enough? That is the uncomfortable question now sitting behind a new paper on Neanderthal brains, because the most startling thing about its conclusion is not that it is radical. It is that it should not be startling at all.
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https://www.livescience.com/archaeolo...
https://www.discovermagazine.com/nean...
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