The Neanderthals

question 15

Multiple Choice

The Neanderthals

• A) were less than a meter tall and had grapefruit-sized skulls.
• B) died out before modern humans had evolved.
• C) never lived in the same regions as modern humans.
• D) provided a few percent of the genomes of people with European or Asian ancestry.

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Nuclear Family

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Ethnic Group

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