“Despite living in a modern era, his lack of basic manners and inability to adapt to social norms made him a true Neanderthal among his colleagues.”

“They say that the site was probably a series of ponds used as a watering place by both Neanderthals and animals.”

“The datings provided by both laboratories have enabled them to confirm that the Neanderthals from the Asturian cave lived some 49,000 years ago.”

“In my view, modern humans evolved in situ from Neanderthals in Europe, as they did from robust forms elsewhere.”

“In the past archaeologists and anthropologists believed the Neandertals were uninventive and slow creatures.”

“Has no-one thought that maybe Heidelberg man was a form of our own species who evolved into Neandertals?”

“Bison, mammoths, red deer, and other animals moved south, and the Neandertals and early humans followed them.”