collectively, the very robust, regionally differentiated human populations that lived in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa from 35,000 to 200,000 years ago.
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any physically robust, premodern form of the genus Homo , including Homo sapiens neanderthalensis (Neanderthal man) or Homo erectus , and their intermediate forms and regional variants.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.