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For a long time, the common depiction of Neanderthals was a group of unintelligent subhumans who could only communicate through wild gestures and loud grunts. But many researchers were not convinced Neanderthals were as primitive as the media made them appear. Scholars curious about the mysterious extinction of this hominid species 30,000 years ago have spent their lives trying to unmask the origins and details of the lives of the Neanderthals. One of the results of this interest was the discovery that Neanderthals probably had speech abilities not so dissimilar from what people use today. People used to think that early humans and Neanderthals were missing the necessary cognitive ability and vocal hardware to accomplish spoken language. But an international