'Perfectly Preserved' Neanderthal Skull Bones Suggest Their Noses Didn't Evolve to Warm Air

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The Neanderthals, the extinct human species with which we share time and space in Eurasia and with which we even crossed, had an unmistakable face. The face was projected forward, what is known as mediofacial prognatism, and their noses were strikingly broad, with large nostrils. These features have generated decades of scientific debate, as they were paradoxical: they did not seem to be adapted to the harsh cold of the end of Pleistocene, somet…