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    Why did some Neanderthals have bad posture?

    Question #87290. Asked by sm_2014. (Oct 15 07 12:57 AM)


    lanfranco

    		Apparently, they didn't, or not as a general feature. Several sites point out that our traditional view of Neanderthals as stoop-shouldered and bent over is incorrect.


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A21606040

    Oct 15 07, 7:32 AM
    zbeckabee

    		"In the early 1900's after many skeletons were found, the French paleontologist Marcellin Boule, determined that Neanderthals could not fully extend their legs, walked stooped over, and had his head thrust forward. This notion would be the popular image for about fifty years. In 1957 researchers re-examined the skeleton Boule had examined and concluded that Neanderthals walked upright and that the stooped posture suggested by Boule's specimen was due to a case of arthritis."

    http://www.blavatsky.net/features/newsletters/2007/neanderthals.htm

    http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/emnh.htm

    Oct 15 07, 9:23 AM
    ferfer72

    		Why do some people today have bad posture? For the same reasons.

    http://www.enduringresults.com/articles/posture-p2.htm

    Oct 15 07, 9:52 AM

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