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Ape-Men? 7
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For about 100 years the world was led to believe that Neanderthal man was stooped and apelike. This false idea was based upon some Neanderthals with bone diseases such as arthritis and rickets (s). Recent dental and x-ray studies of Neanderthals suggest that they were humans who matured at a slower rate and lived to be much older than people today (t). Neanderthal man, Heidelberg man, and Cro-Magnon man are now considered completely human. Artists?? drawings of ??ape-men,? especially their fleshy portions, are often quite imaginative and are not supported by the evidence (u).

Furthermore, the techniques used to date these fossils are highly questionable.

s. Francis Ivanhoe, ??Was Virchow Right About Neanderthal?? Nature, Vol. 227, 8 August 1970, pp. 577??578.

William L. Straus Jr. and A. J. E. Cave, ??Pathology and the Posture of Neanderthal Man,? The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 32, December, 1957, pp. 348??363.

Bruce M. Rothschild and Pierre L. Thillaud, ??Oldest Bone Disease,? Nature, Vol. 349, 24 January 1991, p. 288.

t. Jack Cuozzo, Buried Alive: The Startling Truth about Neanderthal Man (Green Forest, Arkansas: Master Books, 1998).

Jack Cuozzo, ??Early Orthodontic Intervention: A View from Prehistory,? The Journal of the New Jersey Dental Association, Vol. 58, No. 4, Autumn 1987, pp. 33??40.

u. Boyce Rensberger, ??Facing the Past,? Science 81, October 1981, p. 49.

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