Our new study on Neanderthal cranio-facial morphology, led by Prof. Wroe from the University of New England, was recently published on the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. We have employed a combination of different methods using geometric morphometrics (for the virtual reconstruction), finite element analysis, and computational fluid dynamics, where we suggest that the large noses characterising the Neanderthal species helped them to breathe more air while they were running and hunting.
This research has also received an exetensive international media attention, with articles on major newspapers, including The Guardian, Daily Mail and Cosmos Magazine. Here a couple of links:
