Neanderthals are some of history’s worst victims of bad PR. As we continue to discover, Neanderthals weren’t crude, uncultured hominins but a complex species with sophisticated tools, engravings, and attitudes toward foreigners — albeit with a potential taste for inbreeding. A PNAS study published Monday clears up another misconception we Homo sapiens have always lorded over them: their terrible posture.

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