Neanderthal Noses

摘要

With all the attention given to the study of Neanderthals over the years, you'd think by now we'd know everything that made these early humans different from us. But paleoan-thropologists Ian Tattersall, of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and Jeffrey Schwartz, of the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh, have found something new in the Neanderthal nose. "When we started this work," says Tattersall, "we thought, 'My God, people have been looking at Neanderthals for well over 100 years. How could we possibly find anything they haven't noticed?'"