Photos: Scientists Have Reconstructed the Face of a 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Woman

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Cambridge researchers reconstructed the face of Shanidar Z, a Neanderthal woman who lived 75,000 years ago in Iraq's Shanidar Cave — revealing features far more familiar than the brutish stereotype, and new evidence of Neanderthal community and care for the dead

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