This is pretty cool, Neanderthals are from Paranthropus. Look here:
rib cage of Paranthropus, including P. neanderthalensis, conical
rib cage of Australopithecus and Homo, cylindrical
and the two lineages (Paranthropus and Australopithecus) speciated as early as 6 million years ago, shown by data from Popadin et al[1] last year
for reference, here is KSD-VP-1/1, "Kadanuumuu", 3.58 million years old Australopithecus afaransis, that clearly shows that the human rib cage pre-dates all Paranthropus fossils, including Paranthropus neanderthalensis and Paranthropus deyiremeda from 3.5 million years ago[2].
References
Mitochondrial pseudogenes suggest repeated inter-species hybridization in hominid evolution
New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity
The species tree, building on the data from Popadin et al,
it was very interesting to know more about it thanks for sharing a detailed post on it
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amazing, great inventions, very old fossils, will the ribs not rot after man's death and how long will it last? I like about the study of living things
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