The Neanderthal bones tell a story of a species that grew slowly through early childhood, a team of scientists reported in the journal Science on Thursday. For the Neanderthal skeleton at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, there's a creative solution. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post)About 36 percent of the juvenile Neanderthal's skeleton was still intact. But overall, they concluded, J1 reveals that Neanderthals grew up like modern human children. Read more:A scientist needed help studying Neanderthal teeth — so he asked his dentistArchaeology shocker: Study claims humans reached the Americas 130,000 years agoYour Neanderthal DNA might actually be doing you some good

Source: Washington Post September 21, 2017 18:06 UTC