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COPYRIGHT 2003 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
In 1856 two quarrymen found an ancient cranium in the limestone-rich Neander Valley near Dusseldorf, Germany. Anthropologists have been arguing about Neanderthals ever since.
One controversy centers on the utility of the Neanderthal thumb. Well-preserved, 60,000- to 70,000-year-old remains from the La Ferrassie rock-shelter in south-central France show that...
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