Lead author, Dr Penny Spikins, senior lecturer in
the Archaeology of Human Origin at the University of York, said: «Our findings suggest Neanderthals didn't think in terms of whether others might repay their efforts, they just responded to their feelings about seeing their loved ones suffering.»
Not exact matches
According to Sonia Zakrzewski, an associate professor
of archaeology at the University
of Southampton, Hublin's discovery could encourage other archaeologists to change the way they think about
human origins.
While Serrallonga worked on his 5 - year degree in prehistory and
archaeology at the University
of Barcelona, he persuaded Sabater Pi, the primatologist whose albino gorilla was so important in piquing his interest in
human origins, to let him work with him.