Ewen Callaway
Museum recreation of a Neanderthal (Image: Wikimedia Commons)The Neanderthal's huge nose is a fluke of evolution, not some grand adaptation, research suggests.
The Neanderthal nose has been a matter of befuddlement for anthropologists, who point out that modern cold-adapted humans have narrow noses to moisten and warm air as it enters the lung, and reduce water and heat loss during exhalation.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
