Ella Al-Shamahi

And you kind of bring out the front, so it's kind of jutting or prognathic, as we say.

And you bring out the back, so you've kind of got what we call an occipital bone at the back.

So with a lot of Neanderthals, if you touch the back of their skull, they have quite a big bump.

Now, if you touch a lot of people's skulls, women tend to be slightly smoother.

Men have a bit more ridging.

It's a bit rougher.

But with Neanderthals, I'm talking about a proper bump at the back.

And then they don't really have chins.

Chins are actually a very modern invention.

There's no real species of human that has chins besides us.

They had also very prominent brow ridges.

Yeah, very, very prominent.

And also you see your forehead and my forehead, they kind of go up and the Neanderthal forehead is kind of, it's much shorter and it kind of just kind of recedes straight into the rest of the head basically.

So there are different physical characteristics.

that broadly it's been argued are kind of in line with you're in a slightly colder climate.

It kind of makes sense if you're in a colder climate to have a bigger chest comparative to your limbs.

Although, honestly, it's constantly debated as to whether... It's really funny, actually.

People keep...

suggest that is the prevailing theory but every time people test it sometimes it proves correct sometimes like there's something about nasal size that Neanderthals have slightly bigger noses and there was thinking about that being about you know cold air and what have you the testing is always it's never conclusive but I think broadly most of us kind of buy that it's because it's

They were cult adapted.