The last breath of the Neanderthals
11/01/2017 06:00:00 PM
Both modern humans and Neanderthals settled successfully in the cold, dry landscapes of western Eurasia. Among many of the physical adaptations that they had to face in order to survive this climate, the morphology of the nose stands out, whose function allowed humidifying and heating the air before it reached the lungs.
However, in the absence of soft tissue samples from the fossil record, it has so far been very difficult for scientists to conduct a comparative study of respiratory performance, taking into account the differences in craniofacial and nasal morphology of neanderthal and modern humans.
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