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Published online 27 March 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030324-6
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Neanderthals' capable of fine handiwork
Our primitive cousins didn't lose the evolutionary race for want of manual dexterity.
Neanderthals were as skilled with their hands as we are, suggests a new computer analysis of their finger bones1. This indicates that clumsiness was probably not the reason for their demise.
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