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Alan Cooper & Laura Weyrich / The Conversation The typical vision of Neanderthals has not been particularly flattering, often featuring a giant club and spear and unfortunate sartorial choices. For years, researchers have worked to overturn this view, albeit with limited evidence. But new research, published today in Nature, provides some of the first nuanced, detailed insights into the everyday lives of Neanderthal. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"33873","attributes":{"alt":"The homme de Spy (\"Man from Spy\") (boris doesborg/ CC BY NC SA 2.0 ), and other reconstructions of what Neanderthals may have looked like: at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany (Stefan Scheer/Stefanie Krull/ CC BY SA 3.0 ), in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany (כ.אלון/ CC BY SA 3.0 ), and in Zagros Paleolithic