Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Shmunis Family Anthropology Institute, Dan David Center for Human Evolution and Biohistory Research, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Science. 2021 Dec 3;374(6572):eabl5789. doi: 10.1126/science.abl5789. Epub 2021 Dec 2.
Marom and Rak claim, on the basis of a few mandibular features, that the Nesher Ramla (NR) is a Neanderthal. Their comments lack substance and contribute little to the debate surrounding the evolution of Middle Pleistocene . Limitations and preconceptions in their study prevented them from achieving resolution beyond a dichotomous interpretation of the NR as either a Neanderthal or a modern human.
马罗姆和拉克基于下颌骨的一些特征声称,内瑟拉姆拉(NR)是尼安德特人。他们的评论缺乏实质内容,对中更新世进化的争论几乎没有贡献。他们研究中的局限性和偏见使他们无法得出除将 NR 要么解释为尼安德特人要么解释为现代人的二分法解释之外的结论。