article_snippet: 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 our own.
article_snippet: 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: 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.
article_snippet: Dr Gómez-Olivencia found that the shape of the Neanderthal stapes differs from our own, meaning they may have heard sounds differently too.
article_snippet: ‘our do not yet know the relation between these morphological differences and hearing in the Neanderthals.
highlights_snippet: Shows a morphological difference between Neanderthals and humans .