Highly muscular Homo neanderthalensis was adapted more for hunting than the harsh tundra environment of the Late Pleistocene
31 January 2019
The prevailing explanation for Neanderthal body form is the cold (glacial) adaptation hypothesis.
Palaeoecological and genetic evidence for Neanderthal power locomotion as an adaptation to a woodland environment
J. R. Stewart, O. García-Rodríguez, M. V. Knul, L. Sewell, H. Montgomery, M. G. Thomas, Y. Diekmann
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.12.023
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