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A Neanderthal droog?

Mon, 2007-07-30 23:28 -- John Hawks

The Telegraph has a Roger Highfield article about those zany Neanderthals.

I can't get over the reconstruction that accompanies the article:

Neandertal reconstruction, Natural History Museum, London

Picture from article in the Telegraph, with caption: A model head of Neanderthal man created by Maurice Wilson of the Natural History Museum, London

Those eyes say something to me, something very familiar....

Film poster from <i>A Clockwork Orange</i>

(via Gene Expression)

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