article_snippet.sent: From their heavy build and short limbs, to the shape of their skull and teeth, there are many ways that the anatomy of Neanderthals differed to us own.
article_snippet.sent: Now experts say that even a small bone in experts ears are dissimilar to one in modern humans, raising the prospect that our extinct ancient relatives heard differently to our too.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers created a computer model of the middle ear bone of a Neanderthal child, whose remains were discovered in France 40 years ago.
article_snippet.sent: The remains from the two-year-old child, which are known as La Ferrassie 8, were discovered at La Ferrassie in the Dordogne, south western France, between 1970 and 1973.
article_snippet.sent: Asier Gómez-Olivencia, an Ikerbasque researcher at the University of the Basque Country in northern Spain, produced a 3D computer reconstruction of whose remains.
article_snippet.sent: His work, published in The Journal of Human Evolution, reveals another anatomical difference between the Neanderthals and modern humans in the smallest ossicles of the body.