[T}he Neanderthals had broad trunks and short limbs like the Inuit (or Eskimo)
but in both features, they were more extreme. … The bottom line is that their
distinctive heads rested on fireplug-like bodies, and in the buff, Neanderthals
would garner stares in any modern health club. It has sometimes been said
that if they were properly dressed, they would go unnoticed on the New York
subway, but even this is doubtful, unless their fellow riders were also
Neanderthals, or unless, like many New Yorkers, they made a point of minding
their own business.
—Richard G. Klein and Blake Edgar, The Dawn of Human Culture 175-6 (2002)
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