Big #Neandertal #noses weren't made for cold
Neandertal nasal cavities were much the same as those of our own #HomoSapiens species, researchers report November 17 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The research finally refutes an old idea that Neandertals’ protruding faces were necessary to accommodate large noses that had supposedly evolved to warm and moisten cold and dry air before it reached their lungs.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/big-neandertal-werent-nose-cold-climate
Neandertal nasal cavities were much the same as those of our own #HomoSapiens species, researchers report November 17 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The research finally refutes an old idea that Neandertals’ protruding faces were necessary to accommodate large noses that had supposedly evolved to warm and moisten cold and dry air before it reached their lungs.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/big-neandertal-werent-nose-cold-climate












