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why do aborigines look like neanderthals?
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Aborigines may have looked like Neanderthals because they share a common ancestor, the most recent being Homo sapiens about 400,000 to 500,000 years ago. As populations separated over time and evolved in isolation, the physical attributes of different populations became increasingly different. The physical characteristics of Aborigines resulted from adaptive processes in which they evolved to their specific environment, while the Neanderthal genetic traits slowly become dilute in the gene pools of people who no longer live in the specific environment they were designed for. Therefore, the physical characteristics of Aborigines, such as prominent cheekbones and broad, flat faces, resulted due to their ancestors having been adapted to the extremely dry environment of Australia for thousands of years.