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• Neandertal anti-defamation files, 16      Thu, 2012-03-22
08:19 -- John Hawks      Barbara King joins the Neandertal Anti-
Defamation League with her new post at NPR: "Giving Neanderthals
Some Respect (Especially In An Election Year)".      "Knuckle-
dragging Neanderthals!" Every election year, political
candidates of all stripes are tarred with this epithet. In a
recent column, Washington Post pundit Kathleen Parker asks if
it's fair that many U.S. women see the Republican party in
precisely those terms. My question: Is that fair to the
Neanderthals?      Well, one thing is for sure: If one of the
political parties really was Neandertals, they'd do better than
the ones we have now!    • Neandertals and eagle talons
Mon, 2012-03-12 00:31 -- John Hawks      Eugène Morin and
Véronique Laroulandie have published a new paper in PLoS ONE
demonstrating evidence that some Neandertals had a fetish for
eagle talons [1]. From the conclusion of the (o