Sentence examples for neanderthal from inspiring English sources

We have 21st century sensibilities running on neanderthal software.

While Woody and talking dog Malloy exploit it for cash, Denzel has sex with a defrosted Neanderthal woman.

He has found that, though they are similar, they are different enough to confirm that modern people probably do not have any Neanderthal ancestors.Despite the fantasies of "Jurassic Park", it will never be possible to reconstruct creatures that are millions of years old by reassembling their DNA into working genes; DNA molecules simply do not last that long.

Dr Pääbo says he will have a rough draft of the entire Neanderthal genome within two years, and that he has devised a way to make pyrosequencing ten times faster.

Given the neanderthal nature of many of that organisation's members, it is tempting to say good riddance.

His group extracts and sequences genetic material from fossils, and has produced DNA analyses of both mammoths and Neanderthal man.

He also took a risk by giving credibility to Sinn Fein thereby increasing its influence in Ireland, as recent elections have shown.Paul KavanaghBremen, GermanyFossilsSIR – I found your description of the dictatorships in Myanmar and North Korea as "Neanderthal" to be quite unfair ("The great game in Asia", March 31st).

NEANDERTHAL man was a strong, large-brained, skilful big-game hunter who had survived for more than 200,000 years in the harsh European climates of the last Ice Age.

The extinction of Neanderthal man has been attributed variously to his having lower intelligence than modern humans, to worse language skills, to cruder tools, or even to the lack of a propensity for long-distance trade.

The latest proposal, though, is that it is not so much Neanderthal man that was to blame, as modern woman.In existing pre-agricultural societies there is, famously, a division of food-acquiring labour between men, who hunt, and women, who gather.

But the solution there has as much to do with reforming Neanderthal funding systems as it does with the greater public spending he advocates.