Word: eiseley
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Western Reserve University Loren C. Eiseley, author, professor of anthropology, University of Pennsylvania L.H.D...
...Loren C. Eiseley of the University of Pennsylvania added that Neanderthal man did not have fangs or other wild-animal features. These unappealing characteristics were given to him by heavy-handed reconstructors. He could not have been as brutish as his detractors say. His face and skull certainly had a somewhat apelike cast, but his brain was as big as that of many modern men. It gave him, for one thing, the emotional ability to form a kind of religion with belief in a future life. In a cave near La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France, a Neanderthal grave...