Stand Up Straight, Like Your Neanderthal Cousin

[Scylla]

Neanderthals were not hunched over and had more similar posture to modern humans than we thought.

 

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-major-difference-between-neanderthals-and-humans-has-been-quashed/amp

[DD1991]

Hold on. The Neanderthal was thought to be a hunchback fossil hominid and seen as a savage beast and lunatic race thanks to the La Chapelle-aux-Saints skeleton. We now know, however, that Neanderthals had no hunchback (I learned about the Neanderthal myth in a Physical Anthropology class in Irvine Valley College), because the La Chapelle-aux-Saints skeleton is arthritic.