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The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike.
They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological classification that humans and their relatives fall into) We shared an ancestor with them around 600,000 years ago .
They evolved in Europe while we did so in Africa , before dispersing multiple times into Eurasia .
But the evidence points to key differences in the brains of our species.
Iconic words are pervasive in languages today , capturing aspects of the sound, size, movement and texture of the concept the word represents.
This contrasts with words that are only arbitrarily related to the thing they refer to.
As these types of words were transmitted from generation to generation, arbitrary words and rules of syntax emerged.
But these diverged as both species continued to evolve and H.sapiens and Neanderthal language diverged.
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