The First Adhesive Was Invented by Neanderthals 200,000 Years Ago
The early hominids were the first to invent an adhesive, and scientists now understand how.
By Jen Viegas
August 31, 2017
10:50 AM EDT
Neanderthals — early members of the genus Homo from Europe and Asia — have had such a lowly standing on the human family tree that the very word Neanderthal is often synonymous with archaic ways and ignorance.
Neanderthals, however, had big brains, complex societies, and tools so useful that some designs created for leatherworking are still in use today. Many researchers even believe that a true extinction of Neanderthals might not have occurred, but that these individuals instead were absorbed into what evolved to be current Homo sapiens. To this day, people of European and Asian heritage retain Neanderthal DNA.
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