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Neanderthal man

Neanderthal, the Neanderthal, Neanderthals, early human, Pleistocene/Ice Age peoples, archaic human, Homo erectus. The colloquial insult "Neanderthal" is sexist because it is reserved for men and ethnocentric because it represents early peoples unfairly. See also prehistoric man, primitive man, troglodyte.


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