Species Profile
Homo neanderthalensis
Neanderthal
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Neanderthals lived about 400,000–40,000 years ago.
Fossils found in Europe and Western Asia.
They coexisted with early Homo sapiens.
Size & Structure
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Stocky body
02
Large skull and brow ridges
03
Broad nose
04
Strong limbs
Homo neanderthalensis — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- True coelom
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Highly developed cerebrum (about 1400 cc)
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Homeothermic
- Circulatory type
- Closed, double, complete
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Pulmonary respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ureotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Skilled hunters
Tool makers (Mousterian tools)
Social group living
Economic Importance
Human ancestry research
Genetic studies
Archaeological importance