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Science 11 February 2005:
Vol. 307. no. 5711, p. 840
DOI: 10.1126/science.307.5711.840a
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NEANDERTALS REVISITED MEETING:
Calorie Count Reveals Neandertals Out-Ate Hardiest Modern Hunters

Elizabeth Culotta

NEW YORK CITY--Top Neandertal experts gathered from 27 to 29 January for an invitation-only conference sponsored by New York University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. A paleoanthropologist calculated basal metabolic rate and daily calorie needs of Neandertals and found them to be even greater than those of modern people who hunt game near an ice front.

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